Nasa’s stunning space tourism posters will make you want to travel to Mars
Get your space suit on – these stunning pictures of future space travel will make you want to pack your suitcase and head for Mars, and beyond.
The retro poster designs, commissioned by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab, imagine a future where a mission to Mars is more of a day trip and a visit to Saturn's Enceladus is on the cards.
Created by design studio Invisible Creature for the Nasa lab's calendar which goes out to staff, scientists, engineers, government officials and academics, they aim to inspire people to make visions of the future a reality.
Nasa’s Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among many others, have provided important information in understanding of the habitability of Mars. This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated
Nasa’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable science from the far reaches of our solar system.
The discovery of Enceladus’ icy jets and their role in creating Saturn’s E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Further Cassini mission discoveries revealed strong evidence of a global ocean and the first signs of potential hydrothermal activity beyond Earth – making this tiny Saturnian moon one of the leading locations in the search for possible life beyond Earth.