Picture of the Day 3/4/14 - A Mars colony by French sci-fi artist Manchu (Philippe Bouchet).
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Astronauts exploring Noctis Labyrinthus by Pat Rawlings
Picture of the Day 2/4/14 - A classic work "in Noctis Labyrinthus" (1989) for NASA by Pat Rawlings.
Maybe it's You there climbing? ;)
Maybe it's You there climbing? ;)
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
ISECG strategy for long-range human space exploration
The International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) is a forum of 14 most advanced government space agencies - ASI (Italy), CNES (France), CNSA (China), CSA (Canada), CSIRO (Australia), DLR (Germany), ESA (European Space Agency), ISRO (India), JAXA (Japan), KARI (Republic of Korea), NASA (United States of America), NSAU (Ukraine), Roscosmos (Russia), UKSA (United Kingdom). Its main goal is to advance a long-range human space exploration strategy.
On August, 2013 12 ISECG member agencies (including NASA) released the most recent update to the Global Exploration Roadmap. The summary can be seen in this infographic:
On April 10-11, 2014 NASA plans to host a workshop to discuss the updates to this roadmap.
Hope, the private pioneers like SpaceX, Mars One and others will speed up those plans a bit!
On August, 2013 12 ISECG member agencies (including NASA) released the most recent update to the Global Exploration Roadmap. The summary can be seen in this infographic:
On April 10-11, 2014 NASA plans to host a workshop to discuss the updates to this roadmap.
Hope, the private pioneers like SpaceX, Mars One and others will speed up those plans a bit!
Mars base by Bryan Versteeg
Bryan Versteeg is one of the best conceptual design artists for space exploration nowadays. Today I have picked one of his concept art pictures for Mars habitat as my "Picture of the Day" for Mars colonization.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Infographics: Missions to Mars
Here are some of the best infographics I have found about past missions to Mars from 1960 to 2013, both failed and successful.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Toponymic MAP of Mars
When reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy I tried to find in the web a good map of Mars with enough toponyms to print out and effectively follow the story. I didn't found one. There were a few with the very basic toponymy of Mars but none to really follow the geographically rich story of Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. So I made one by myself collecting a lot of data from various maps including Google Mars. Feel free to use and share it :)
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