Mars Terraforming: The Growth of Industry by wblack

Poser • Science Fiction • posted on Oct 31, 2011

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Mars Terraforming: The Growth of Industry This is an on-going series -- previous posts are linked below. I am putting together a mission cycle chart and along the way I found I wanted to illustrate in some way the scale of the logistics and industrial complex required to sustain and drive forward an effort to terraform Mars. I had began work on a composition showing assembly of the large Orion ground-launchers – and this led (perhaps sidetracked me) into working out illustrations of the peripheral consequence of the endeavor. The spacecraft themselves (with their enormously complex nuclear thermal drive systems, life support, massive Orion nuclear pulse platforms -- not to mention the impulse charges required to propel them across the solar system) are merely the tip of the iceberg – the scope of the infrastructure required would become (perhaps in equal measure) a part of the transformation of the red planet. Mars Colony Terraforming Program Image Links: Mars Colony: The Expanding Frontier Discarding Stages Discarding Stages: A New Perspective Prospecting Callisto Callisto Production Field Flight Control Station Command & Control Deck Crew Quarters Mars Colony Heavy Lift Nuclear SSTO Mars Colony Nuclear SSTO Launch Mars Colony Nuclear SSTO Approach to Touchdown Nuclear SSTO Orbital Operations Nuclear SSTO Diagram Mars Terraforming Program Orion Launch Site Callisto Orbital Loading Operation Dusk Orbit: Mission Support Transporter Unloading Mars Terraforming Program Vehicle Class Chart Image rendered in Poser 8. Resources: Stonemason’s Greeble City Blocks II. Dystopian Heavy Hauler (modified with a wheeled chassis of my own design). My own custom lighting rig and atmospheric effects imposed on the Terra Dome system. Extensive post-processing in Photoshop. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.