#martian landscape

[adrianl4u]

fresh ice on Mars dunes. photo from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, from NASA

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

DOOM 2016 - Game World Ambience - The Winds of Mars

Step onto the surface of Mars in DOOM (2016), where the relentless howling winds sweep across the desolate red planet. 🌌🔫

Feel the intense atmosphere of this hostile world, as the wind roars through the barren Martian landscape. Whether you're preparing to face the hordes of demons, seeking an adrenaline-fueled focus, or just immersing yourself in the haunting, otherworldly ambience, DOOM (2016) brings you to the edge of survival in a distant, savage environment.

For other game world ambience videos check out this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFo5LyAEvdIcP4syymQaI50

[elinerlina2]

One of the 7 Wonders of the World "Petra" or the Martian Desert Camp in Wadi Rum gives you an out of your mind experience during the night

[acqua-marine]

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

Sculpture to Be Seen From Mars, 1947

A ten-mile-long earthwork depicting an abstract human face, Noguchi’s Sculpture to Be Seen From Mars was, as the artist himself once put it, “a requiem for all of us who live with the atomic bomb” and alternatively “a flight of the imagination.” Prompted by the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which horrified Noguchi—“he often spoke of his fear of atomic annihilation,” Hayden Herrera writes in Listening to Stone—he began thinking about end-of-mankind scenarios. “It was in 1945, wasn’t it, when we dropped the atomic bomb?” Noguchi once reflected. “All of us were concerned about our place on earth, and that it might be rather precarious.��

For Noguchi, the monumental work was intended to be “an eternal reminder to the rest of the solar system that the planet earth, seemingly bent on self-destruction, once had its civilizations,” writes Friedman in the Imaginary Landscapes catalogue, hailing it as the artist’s “most impressive memorial to the futility of war.” The work, as Friedman points out, was also Noguchi’s way of showing his respect and reverence for ancient and indigenous monumental forms, such as the pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the Andes. “‘Earth sculpture’ is nothing new,” Noguchi said. “It’s just a new name for an old thing.”

The earthwork also connected to Noguchi’s ongoing interest in outer space and the cosmos. When the art critic Lucy Lippard asked Noguchi to use a photograph of the project in her 1983 book Overlay, paralleling contemporary art with prehistoric sites and symbols, Noguchi replied, “I recently saw a reproduction of a face which was found in the landscape of Mars taken by the Viking Satellite. I think it would be very appropriate to show this version along with mine. I have written to the Mars Research Laboratory asking for this image and will send it to you if you are interested.” The connection of rocks across the universe was not lost on the artist. “Ultimately,” Noguchi told Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker in 1980, “I like to think that when you get to the furthest point of technology, when you get to outer space, what do you find to bring back? Rocks!”

An incredibly moving, visionary concept that, as Friedman notes, in many ways preceded the land art and conceptual art movements that would emerge and flourish in the second half of the twentieth century, Noguchi’s memorial to mankind was intended for “some desert, some unwanted area.” It was, as the artist put it, “a sculpture just to be seen from the air so that, when you come to a landing, you will see the sculpture there.” That Noguchi was concurrently working on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial suggests he was balancing both a belief in America’s future technological prospects and an acknowledgment of the bleak potential for mankind to destroy the planet and itself. Sculpture to Be Seen From Mars is today only memorialized in a single photograph of a model Noguchi had formed out of sand.

[azurendays]

Who would’ve thought a Furry Event is how we get good Jason Todd writing??

[saintbeckett]

No one would have believed...

…that I could make more of this crap.

[skitskatdacat63]

The mortifying ordeal of choosing a new pfp

[mortalmab]

The fact that NASA hasn’t named any of the Mars related robots “Marvin” just seems like an over site. Come on, space nerds, you can do better than that!

[aidenwaites]

I just got an email from my boss telling me to choose a movie poster to hang in the AV area (because everyone in the department gets one I guess???) This job is nuts

[csleko]

THE RED PLANET

Just got back from a road trip, and we listened to "The Martian" audiobook on the drive home. So when it was time to wake up the compy from its two week nap with some hard Blendering, I may have been a little bit inspired.

Also, like that Mustafar render I did a while back, this one is another remake of a super old Terragen project. (By "super old" I mean circa 2005.)

Honestly? This old one still holds up pretty nicely! Definitely the best render 14-year-old Leko ever got out of playing around with Terragen.

[michaelgabrill]

A Spooky Soliday: Haunting Whispers from the Martian Landscape

The Perseverance rover lurks in the quiet, cold, desolate landscape of Jezero crater on Mars, a place masked in shadows and haunted by past mysteries. Built to endure the planet’s harsh conditions, Perseverance braves the thin atmosphere and extreme temperature swings. Its microphone captures the eerie whispers of martian winds, sending shivers down your spine, […] from NASA https://ift.tt/8UBECgk

[beans-in-a-toaster]

it just hit me that all the “we’ll have people on Mars by the 2030’s!” means it’ll be gen Z on Mars. as much as I wanna believe all the Mars stuff is like 60% empty promises, i can’t not love the idea of people of our generation having boots dusted in Martian soil. just sounds rad

[biglisbonnews]

Dunas de Yeso in Cuatrociénegas, Mexico Nestled in the Cuatrociénegas Reserve, desert winds slowly form these majestic, white dunes, known as Dunas de Yeso. The dunes are the second largest gypsum dunes in North America. The sand that forms the dunes dates back to the Cretaceous Era, when this area was once at the bottom of a seabed.  The six rocky mountain ranges that surround the desert valley are full of gypsum. When it rains, rainwater carries gypsum deposits from the surface of the mountains to the aquifers (underground porous rock) that, through springs, feed the area’s pools. When these shallow pools evaporate, the gypsum is exposed. These gypsum deposits then slowly erode into fine sand crystals that are swept up by the wind to form the dunes. You can see similar expanses of gypsum at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. The winds here constantly change the desert landscape. Walking through these dunes is like a journey back in time to when this desert was a seabed teeming with life from the Cretaceous. The sand’s pure gypsum content makes the sand very white, which shines in the sunlight making for glorious sunsets.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dunas-de-yeso-gypsum-dunes

[tellervinini]

[postitforward]

Hello there 👋

Welcome back to Mindful Mondays! 🧘

Mondays are, famously, most people’s seventh favorite day of the week. And Mondays where everything is darker, longer, and colder than normal? Thanks, but no thanks.

But don’t panic; we’ve got something to help. It might be small, but it can make a big difference. Just ten minutes of mindfulness can go a long way, and taking some time out to sit down, slow down, and breathe can help center your thoughts and balance your mood. Sometimes, the best things in life really are free.

This year, we have teamed up with the good folks at @nasa. They want you to tune in and space out to relaxing music and ultra-high-definition visuals of the cosmos—from the surface of Mars.  

Sounds good, right? Well, it gets better. Watch more Space Out episodes on NASA+, a new no-cost, ad-free streaming service.

Why not give it a try? Just a few minutes this Monday morning can make all the difference, and we are bringing mindfulness straight to you. 

🧘WATCH: Space Out with NASA: Martian Landscapes, 11/27 at 1pm EST🧘