EXPLORING MARS Painting

EXPLORING MARS Homage (and Update) To Chesley Bonestell's "Exploring Mars". As we reached the edge of the plateau, I was struck by a sense of déjà vu. Chesley Bonestell had, in 1956, imagined and painted a similar scene already. "Exploring Mars" by Chesley Bonestell first appeared in the 1956 book "The Exploration of Mars" by Willy Ley and Wernher Von Braun with paintings by Chesley Bonestell. The caption read: "The ground station had been set up on Mars, and the explorers are beginning to investigate the vicinity of the landing site". The original painting, an oil on board (14 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches), is now in the permanent collection of the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In painting this new "Exploring Mars", I wanted to pay tribute to the grand master of space art and his creation of an iconic classic, but also update elements of the landscape and hardware in light of new knowledge gained about Mars in the intervening 65 years and evolutions in our thinking about future Mars exploration systems and human surface operations. New hardware designs and concepts of operations come in particular from field research at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) on Devon Island, High Arctic, conducted in collaboration with Mars Institute, SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, Collins Aerospace, Ntention, Canadian Space Agency, and Simon Fraser University. Lessons learned from NASA's Desert RATS field campaigns were also incorporated. My rocket-plane design is inspired from SpaceX's Starships.

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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