Sunday, March 15, 2026

The Alpha Quarry - Part 8 of Martian sketches by Andrey Maximov

Environment concept artist Andrey Maximov from Armenia has created an impressive set of artworks called Martian sketches depicting a "routine" journey to Mars in 2089. After 8-month break he has published another 5 pages of those sketches (currently 45 in total). As the artist describes them: "this series is kind of like the road sketches of a member of an expedition to Mars. It's a routine flight in the not-too-distant future. The planet is more or less inhabited. We have an orbital station around Mars. There are already several settlements on the surface, mining is going on."
  • 1st part (10 sketches) of Andrey's Martian sketches depicted the expedition leaving Earth;
  • 2nd part (5 sketches) depicted expedition's arrival to "International Mars Orbital Station";
  • 3rd part (6 sketches) depicted spaceport "Anteros" on Mars.
  • 4th part (4 sketches) depicted expedition's road to the "Harmonia City".
  • 5th part (5 sketches) depicted the multi-leveled "Harmonia City" on Mars.
  • 6th part (5 sketches) depicted southern (industrial) district of the "Harmonia City".
  • 7th part (5 sketches) depicted expedition's road to the aluminum quarry.

Here is the 8th part (5 sketches) depicting the largest ore processing plant on Mars - "The Alpha Quarry":

Page 41 of Martian sketches by Andrey Maximov - The Alpha Quarry - the largest ore processing plant on Mars
“The largest ETS dump trucks were produced on Mars and could only work here and nowhere else due to the low gravity”:
Page 42 of Martian sketches by Andrey Maximov - The Alpha Quarry. Dump trucks