Fancy a great job! Bravo! Merry Christmas!

Well done!

Great modeling, terrain and scene!

Fantastic image and modeling! Great lighting. Corrie

This is excellent!

Why slow and inefficient manned transports from the Jovian moons back to Mars? Why not simple packages of ore, gases, ices, or other commodities, equipped with a bare minimum of guidance hardware (navigation computer, manuevering/braking rockets and fuel, etc.) to facilitate their entry into an orbit around Mars or one of its moons for later retrieval, and then launched via magnetic rail at a higher initial thrust than men could tolerate? Great render.

Really great model work and brilliant composition I like the way the curve of the mountain range in the background follows the curve of Jupiter's outline. You really should get these out in book form.

Great scene and render. Well done!!

I like the use of your choice of illumination to highlight the base itself, with the surrounding shadows framing the subject. Fine modeling as well. Nicely done.

Amazing work Well Done Karl

great scene

WOW,,, not that's how you model,an absolute must to see it zoomed, so many details, truly masterful! Happy Christmas to you and yours, Peace :)

Thanks for all of your great comments, and happy holidays to all, cheers.

Sarsifus, Thanks for your interest. Looking at a singular post it is often easy to make assumptions about context – so I understand your questions ... (sort of). What I do not understand is, since your apparent “interest” moved you to comment, why wouldn’t you bother to find out “what” you are commenting on? This may seem snarky, it is however a fair question. [Of course not everyone who posts here is working within a plotted course of a carefully thought out future history – much less a future history grounded in a functional understanding of science and technology – some folks are just producing art (science fiction or other genre related).] Among (a large number of) other assumptions about my work, it sounds like you assume chemical-rockets traveling along relatively slow Hohmann trajectories rather than nuclear-fission-initiated-pulsed-plasma rockets – i.e. Orion – making high speed Brachistochrone transits. Among your assumptions (apparently made without bothering to look at the arc of posts available in my gallery detailing the Martian terraforming project depicted in my future history) you “assume” that the chemical ices are transported on “manned” vehicles …? Why would you assume this when it is clearly illustrated otherwise? In regards to your (somewhat vague) assertion about spacecraft “launched via magnetic rail” … The energy required to propel a payload of a hundred thousand tons from Mars to Jupiter applied at the start of the voyage is exactly the same proportionally as the amount of energy required to decelerate and maneuver this payload into the required orbit on arrival. Energy requirements remain exactly the same at each end regardless of propulsion method. You seem to presume there is a benefit of “efficiency” in applying all of the thrust required at once … “at accelerations higher than a human can withstand” … then leaving your “engine at home.” Apparently you’ve given little thought to decelerating and the engine mass, fuel mass, and reaction mass required to accomplish this. If you intend to rely entirely on the Oberth effect to decelerate your payload – then your presumed efficiency disappears as your payload spends months and months on end diving into Jupiter’s gravity well again and again till the velocity is reduced and orbital insertion maneuvers can occur. ΔV is the requirement. The question is can your propulsion method generate the required ΔV. The only other factor is the flight-time involved. In my future history spacecraft involved in resource recovery missions powered by Orion style fission-initiated-pulsed-plasma rocket, haul payloads of ten thousand tons with a total ΔV requirement of 63,740 m/sec 209,000 ft/sec. Initially missions are 900 Days, outbound flight, and return inclusive. 365 of the mission days are spent performing said recovery operations on the surface. At a later era of development (the era pictured here) one way transit times are reduced to around 20 days. The spacecraft (only one element of my future history) are powered by nuclear fission and (in a later era of more advanced, technological innovation – my future history spans a period of around a thousand years) by nuclear fission initiated fusion – in short, by an Orion style nuclear pulse drive. The 200 foot diameter landing vehicles you see pictured here are merely the landing stage, the interplanetary stage remains in orbit. Over the course of innovation these propulsion systems evolve with innovation applied over time, into pulsed plasma rockets generating tens, hundreds, even, millions of gigawat’s of energy … effectively becoming what Robert Heinlein termed “Torchships.” The term "Torchship" was coined by Robert Heinlein, and is featured in his stories Farmer in the Sky, Time for the Stars, Double Star, and "Sky Lift." Nowadays it is implied that a Torchship is some kind of high thrust fusion drive, but Heinlein meant it to mean a total-conversion mass-into-energy drive – my Torchships are high-impulse-cycle advanced Orion’s – some capable of extremely high ΔV Brachistochrone transit’s. Hopefully this has informed you in regards to the context (freely available in my gallery) of my work. So, clearly, when you spoke of “slow and inefficient manned transports” …? I’m not seeing the relevance of this.

That's a pretty cool concept. Nicely done. merry Christmas!

Excellent! Super lighting and terrain creation. Excellent model creations. I particularly like your response to Sarsifus. Though I am of the fantasy/sci fi/ science fantasy genre' I love to absorb any info on reality and possible future reality. Great series.