Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Video: NASA's Journey to Mars

NASA Journey to Mars
In recent months NASA has released some exciting videos visualizing its "Journey to Mars". What is more important - they represent a conceptual shift from Apollo's style approach [every expedition to it's own location] to a more longsighted approach - every expedition to the same one location. At the workshop in October, 2015 NASA officials revealed that "human exploration of Mars is not planned as a single mission, but a series of three to five expeditions, each with a crew of four to six, lasting about 500 Martian days each. All would land in the same exploration zone, or EZ. The plan includes the construction of a surface field station to be located in the center of the exploration." It means that NASA's "Journey to Mars" mission concept has become more friendly to a goal of a permanent human colony on Mars.


NASA's base on Mars after a few decades:

Friday, February 12, 2016

Astronauts on Phobos by Ron Miller

Picture of the Day 12/2/16 - Astronauts on Phobos by sci-fi illustrator and writer Ron Miller. More of his Mars art here.

Astronauts on Phobos by Ron Miller

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Mars base by Bryan Versteeg

Picture of the Day 30/12/15 - Mars base with inflatable sections partially buried in sand by Bryan Versteeg.
More of his space concept art here.
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Mars base by Bryan Versteeg

Friday, October 30, 2015

Concept art for The Martian by Oleg Zherebin

Picture of the Day 30/10/2015 - Mark Watney, his rover and the Sojourner rover as a concept art for The Martian by Oleg Zherebin. More of his art here.

The Martian by Oleg Zherebin

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Mars base illustrations for National Geographic Kids Magazine

Mondolithic Studios has made some pretty impressive illustrations of a human Martian base for National Geographic Kids Magazine (November 2015). Click to view in full resolution:
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Mars base illustration for National Geographic Kids Magazine

Mars base illustration for National Geographic Kids Magazine

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Quotes from The Martian

Some of the most memorable quotes from the latest sci-fi blockbuster The Martian (click to view in full resolution):

Everywhere I go, I’m the first. Step outside the rover - First guy ever to be there! Climb a hill - First guy to climb that hill!

Quote from The Martian movie

Once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially 'colonised' it.

Quote from The Martian movie