Picture of the Day 14/4/2020 - retro style illustration with family exploring surroundings of a Mars colony by American illustrator Patrick Leger. Note the boy pointing at blue Earth in the Martian sky :) More of Leger's art here.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
NASA astronaut on Mars by James Vaughan
Two variants of a scene with NASA's astronaut on Mars by photographer and concept artist James Vaughan - one with a small human base in the background and the second in front of an exploration rover. More of Vaughan's aerospace and defense concept art here.
Monday, April 6, 2020
SpaceX Starship fleet leaving Earth by Roger Bootsma
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Mars base exteriors from Doom (2005) movie
"Doom" is a 2005 sci-fi horror action movie loosely based on the Doom video game series. In the movie, set in mid-21st century, a group of marines are sent on a rescue mission to a research facility on Mars, where they encounter genetically engineered violent creatures with superhuman abilities. Exterior of the Martian research facility is shown only in a few split-seconds in the movie and here are images from those rare moments:
Friday, February 28, 2020
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Animation envisioning first human mission to Mars
Images and video animation envisioning first human mission to Mars created by Taylor James design studio for a health care campaign "Destination Survival" by Sudler & Hennessey London.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Every iteration of SpaceX Starship from 2016 to 2019
Finnish 3D artist Kimi Talvitie has created a side by side comparison of every iteration of SpaceX's Starship from its unveiling in September 2016 to the latest design presented on September 2019. More of Kimi's art here.
- 12m diameter carbon fiber Interplanetary Transport System (September 2016)
- 9m diameter carbon fiber Big Falcon Rocket (September 2017)
- 9m diameter carbon fiber TinTin-style Big Falcon Rocket (September 2018)
- 9m diameter stainless steel TinTin-style Starship (December 2018)
- 9m diameter stainless steel Starship (September 2019)
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Mars colony illustrations by Luis Peres
Nice illustrations of a human colony on Mars by Portuguese fantasy artist Luis Peres for "Generation Mars: Book One - Scratching the Surface" by Douglas Meredith. The goal of this book (published on August 2019) and its upcoming series is to provide younger readers with more serious and realistic science fiction that still tackles the main “what if” quality of the genre. It gives a glimpse into what life on Mars might be like for kids just like them.
The main character, Cas, is the first human child ever born on Mars. Martian kids are living what is, to them, ordinary lives in their underground colony, but for the first time they will be allowed to see and explore the surface of their homeworld. The details of the habitat, its life-support systems, and surface suits are rooted in realistic science and technology, with further details explained in a postscript to the book. Future books of the series will address fundamental issues of survival on Mars: air, shelter, water, food, etc.
The main character, Cas, is the first human child ever born on Mars. Martian kids are living what is, to them, ordinary lives in their underground colony, but for the first time they will be allowed to see and explore the surface of their homeworld. The details of the habitat, its life-support systems, and surface suits are rooted in realistic science and technology, with further details explained in a postscript to the book. Future books of the series will address fundamental issues of survival on Mars: air, shelter, water, food, etc.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
SpaceX Starship landing on the Moon - video animation by Hazegrayart
Video animation of SpaceX's Starship traveling to and landing on the Moon by HazeGrayArt who is known for his superb animations of both real and paper rockets, spacecraft and aircraft on his YouTube channel. He has also made animations of the previous iterations of Starship - Tintin-style BFR v2018 and delta-winged BFR v2017 - landing on Mars; and BFR v2017 landing on the Moon.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Mars base concept art for Ad Astra by Jonathan Bach
Concept art of the Martian base in Ad Astra (2019) movie by American film concept artist Jonathan Bach. More of his art here.
Ground level view of the base:
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