Karl Kofoed describes himself professionally as wearing two "hats". One is that of an Art Director and Designer who has worked for advertising agencies and in television as art director and scenic designer. He operates a freelance business from his home called MEMORIES RESTORED, where he specializes in high end archival photo and document restorations.His other professional hat is that of a science fiction illustrator and writer. He began this page in his life with the Galactic Geographic feature he illustrated and wrote that appeared in Heavy Metal magazine from 1979 to 2004. This work culminated in the 2003 publication, The Galactic Geographic Annual 3003, a "coffee table book from the future" published by Paper Tiger/Sterling books in Britain which is still available on Amazon. He illustrated Mr. Bill in Space with Walter Williams, and has done many book covers and interior illustrations for Asimov's Magazine, Analog and Space & Time Magazine. Karl's five novels are available on Amazon from Baen eBooks: Deep Ice, JOKO, and his sci-fi trilogy Jupiter's Reef, Farthest Reef, and Infinite Reef.Karl and his wife Janet, a talented and popular jewelry designer, live in eastern Pennsylvania and are well known in the east coast science fiction community.Karl's work with NASA's Cassini mission began strictly by chance. While he works in science fiction his interests are largely science and technology and he is a close follower of space sciences.  When the Cassini-Huygens mission sent back radar images of Titan and photographs of Saturn's main moons Karl was experimenting with a landscape creation program called Terragen and immediately noticed the similarity between the radar images of Titan and "bump maps" - elevation maps - used to create topographical landscapes, which are then "painted" in Photoshop. The resulting landscapes of Saturn's moons have earned him accolades from astronomers the world over and have been widely reproduced.Of his work for the Cassini mission Karl says, "I never set out to be a "space artist" so I am thrilled that circumstances and my imaginative skills have earned me a place in the hearts of the Cassini group whose work continues to amaze me.  That my work has been praised by them and included on their website is a thrill beyond my wildest dreams. I firmly believe that art is the left hand of science since they both explore the universe we live in; an artist's imagination and intuition can conceptualize the discoveries of science, making them accessible and understandable to the public. Science isn't just for scientists; it is for the edification and growth of all mankind."