approaching Olympus Mons by dickbill
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Description
While the shuttle is still orbiting , the glider is now 300 km from the south east of the Olympus cliffs. The crew has to approach carefully in a precalculated path to land in a geothermically active area. Landing a glider on Mars is not easy, the thin air gives little support, a stall is very poosible and the speed has to be carefully controled. The crew should also land as close as possible to the fuel tank dropped by the Shuttle during its flight over the region.
Comments (10)
dickbill
I forgot the technical comments: glider is 100% LW7.5, background is terragen. No postprocessing.
Beemer
Terrific image, title, and description.
ebsmooth
really cool picture! everything looks fantastic! great work.
memaci
Love to see real science in science fiction. Great image!
Fillingim
Cool...would love to be flying that craft!!! Now!! Today!!
Lexip
just excellent. More red.
cjd
Just curious ... how do you imagine the glider would be launched? I love the biplane concept!
dickbill
cjd : it could be catapulted for take off. But the glider has a small rocket engine burning Methane CH4 and O2. Mars atmosphere is mostly CO2, on the other hand, Mars ground is full of ice, which can be electrolyzed in O2 and H2 and so H2 can be used with CO2 to give CH4 in the famous Sabatier Reaction that is used in the Mars In Situ Propellant projects. That means the couple CH4/O2 is easy to produce on MArs. Of course this is a glider, very light, the tank contains just enough for some altitude corrections manoeuvers, this is why a fuel tank has to be droped in the glider landing area, and not miss it, Otherwise the glider could not take off again.
Moebius87
Superb work... breathtaking expanse with an imposed blanket of tranquility. Great glider design and modeling!
technogeek
First, a voyager-type glider, now you have a glider that has biplane wings on its tail! I wonder if anyone from NASA or JPL is looking at these concepts. If not, they should.