Showing posts with label Mars Exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mars Exploration. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Take off from Mars by Pat Rawlings

Picture of the Day 25/4/15 - Spaceship taking off from Mars (1990) by space illustrator Pat Rawlings. His description about this drawing you can read here.

Spaceship leaving Mars by Pat Rawlings

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Mars explorer by Erik van Helvoirt

Picture of the Day 21/3/15 - Mars exploration rover by Erik van Helvoirt from Netherlands. More of his concept art here.
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Mars rover by Erik van Helvoirt

Friday, March 6, 2015

Mars explorer by Dmitry Kolomeets

Picture of the Day 6/3/15 - Mars exploration rover (2014) by freelance digital artist Dmitry Kolomeets (Dimk). More of his art here.

Mars rover by Dmitry Kolomeets

Monday, February 23, 2015

Spaceship in Mars orbit by Tim Flattery

Picture of the Day 23/2/15 - Spaceship in Mars orbit by Tim Flattery from his concept art for Mission to Mars. More of his concept art for movies here.

Mission to Mars

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Friday, February 13, 2015

Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Peter Elson

A set of paintings for the book covers of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy by classical space illustrator Peter Elson.
More of his paintings you can find here.

Phase 1. - Red Mars:

Astronauts on Red Mars by Peter Elson

Red Mars by Peter Elson

Phase 2. - Green Mars:

Green Mars by Peter Elson

Phase 3. - Blue Mars:

Blue Mars by Peter Elson

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Carl Sagan: Blues for a Red Planet (documentary)

Carl Sagan: Blues for a Red Planet cover
Blues for a Red Planet (1980) is a documentary about the exploration of Mars by Carl Sagan - the famous visionary of space exploration and colonization. It is the 5th episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series and follows the humanity's gradually improving perception of the planet Mars - from our first looks at the night sky to Schiaparelli's Martian canals and global myth of intelligent but dying Martian civilization and finally the first Mars probes and two Viking landers (the most recent Mars probes of that time).

You can watch the full documentary here:

Carl Sagan and Viking lander

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Astronauts exploring Mars by Kyle Brown

Picture of the Day 7/2/15 - Astronauts trying to find a lost Mars rover by American concept artist Kyle Brown. More of his art here.
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Astronauts exploring Mars by Kyle Brown

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Lone astronaut on Mars by Alberto Vangelista

Picture of the Day 28/1/15 - A lone explorer on Mars by Italian digital artist Alberto Vangelista. More of his art here.
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astronaut on Mars by Alberto Vangelista

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Setting up a Mars base by Pat Rawlings

Picture of the Day 8/5/14 - Setting up a Mars base (1998) by space illustrator Pat Rawlings.
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Mars base by Pat Rawlings

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Astronauts exploring Mars by Sean Brady

Picture of the Day 27/4/14 - "Olympos station" (2007) by Sean Brady from United Kingdom.
Author's description of the scene: Setting up an automated weather station on the lower slopes of Olympus Mons.

Astronauts exploring Mars by Sean Brady

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Astronauts exploring Mars by Ren Wicks

Picture of the Day 15/4/14 - A classic work "Mars mission" (1990) by American artist Ren Wicks. More of his Mars art here.
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Astronauts exploring Mars by Ren Wicks

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014