Your AI Targeting Pod keeps locking onto the moon. The vendor says it’s a bug, fix next patch, just reset it. One day you don’t. It’s just a training flight and you watch it scan. You see it zoom in on craters, and then zoom out. You feel a sympathy as you watch the monitor, is it just your wonder?
Spirit's twin rover, MER-B Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5111 sols (it was planned for 90 sols) and travelled over 45 km. Digital painting, Photoshop, 2026.
Fun that only a sort of hemispherical 'cap' on the antisaturnian side of Titan ever gets *truly* dark, with the rest sitting in various degrees of moonlit twilight at their gloomiest. That big tall atmosphere acts like god's own lampshade!
Cool views of lunar highland mountains from Apollo 17. Zoom to examine and you can get a good feel for the hight and ruggedness of the terrain. flic.kr/p/2rX149C flic.kr/p/2rX2SFo
Excerpts from a NASA/NASA contractor public info publication in my collection. This one, from North American Aviation, was tucked into newspapers across the US ahead of Apollo 4, the first flight test of the Saturn V, in November 1967. I post one of these in its entirety on my Patreon every Sunday.
A bit more TTT - working on the interior layer of the cylinders at the moment. Each of those tiling plates is about 50km long! Type 9 just because.
Physics Building, Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand by Ong-ard Satrabhandhu (1969) r/brutalism
Cassini spacecraft leaving Earth on top of Centaur upper stage. Back in October 2017 I made a series of Cassini themed artworks as a tribute to this amazing mission that gave us most breathtaking images of the other worlds. Painted in Procreate on iPad Pro.
More illuminated stuff -- this time the classic ship I'm always working on, the Type 9.
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