Artist's impression of a base on Phobos,the inner moon of Mars. The painting shows a time when Mars has been partially terraformed (rendered like Earth). A network of lights from human colonies can be seen on the dark side of the planet. Water fills Mars' giant Valles Marineris canyon to make it a real "Martian canal". At lower right,on Phobos,the angled "railway" is one of the mass- drivers which launched dark,carbonaceous material onto Mars' polar caps so that the planet absorbed more radiation & released frozen water. (The idea of terraforming Mars was seriously proposed in the early 1980s by James Lovelock & Michael Allaby in their book The Greening of Mars.) | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Hardy, David A. |
Taille de l’image : | 5083 px × 3504 px |
Model Release : | Non requis |
Property Release : | Non requis |
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