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":

“The largest ETS dump trucks were produced on Mars and could only work here and nowhere else due to the low gravity”:

“Ore arrives 24/7 and is processed mostly automatically. This gigantic complex employs only 150 people”:

“In the evening, the nuclear reactor, which provided energy for the Hall-Heroult process, painted the surrounding landscape blue”:

“Most of the produced metal is launched into Mars orbit and then exported to Earth and the Lunar Colony”:

Martian sketches by Andrey Maximov:

• 1st part (10 sketches) - Farewell Earth!
• 2nd part (5 sketches) - International Mars Orbital Station
• 3rd part (6 sketches) - Spaceport on Mars
• 4th part (4 sketches) - Road to the City
• 5th part (5 sketches) - Harmonia City
• 6th part (5 sketches) - Southern District
• 7th part (5 sketches) - Road to the Quarry
• 8th part (5 sketches) - The Alpha Quarry [currently viewing]

We will publish the rest of the story when it will be published by the author.