Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Space station orbiting Mars by Ville Ericsson

Picture of the Day 28/2/2017 - An international space station orbiting Mars by Swedish concept artist Ville Ericsson.
More of his fantasy art here.

Space station in Mars orbit by Ville Ericsson

Sunday, February 26, 2017

HD images of NASA's base on Mars, 2117, a vision by Blackbird Interactive

In collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Canadian game developer Blackbird Interactive is building NASA's vision of what a Mars base would look like 100 years from now. The "Project Eagle" base is set near the Mount Sharp at Gale crater and the interactive vision was presented at DICE 2017 game developer summit on 22nd of February.

Here are HD 1152p quality images from the project (open link in new tab to view in full resolution):

Project Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPLProject Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPL

Project Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPLProject Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPL

Project Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPLProject Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPL

Here are HD 1080p screenshots from the demonstration videos (open link in new tab to view in full resolution):

Project Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPLProject Eagle Mars base by Blackbird Interactive, NASA JPL