Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.
Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣
@andrealuck
Here is a localization of this image on a broader map, along with names from the official #IAU nomenclature. The center of the image is at approx. 30°S, 153°W.
Not close to any #MarsTrilogy toponyms that I have found so far, so the second image places it in an even broader frame, along with the other images we've seen recently, and some of the well known places from #KSR's #SciFi novels.
Po odběru vzorku z cíle Mineral King pokračuje Curiosity směrem na jih. Při poslední jízdě v solu ujela během 28 minut vzdálenost 17 m. Jede podél mělké brázdy, která je vyplněná pískem.
@JV_Honza
Phaistos and Zakros are my favorites and the peak sanctuaries around the latter, along with Itanos, on the far east coast of Crete.
#KimStanleyRobinson impression, written as thoughts of his Martian heroine Zo (possibly his daughter), surprised me with how it resonated with my own feelings. Of course, there is a significant connection of Mars with Crete 😀
By the way, Cairo in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy apparently had (will have 😜) the best view to this gigantic volcano, and the rest of the Noctis Labyrinthus (3rd image).
OK then, here is some Martian future history, from #KSR's #MarsTrilogy, showing what happened to the space elevator after the Reds attacked it, and a few cities in the area, using your second image.
Hope Mars Mission
Time: 2023-05-23 00:33
Orbit 377
Filters: f635+f546+f437, f320 used to slightly enhance the orographic cloud over Ascraeus Mons
Processed from: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae
@andrealuck
I don't see anything wrong with the animation. I've considered doing some of my animations in Kdenlive, but that will require me to relearn a few tricks, while the ones I do now are automated with GIMP scripts.
The image is of course more useful for my #KSR#MarsTrilogy maps, although I don't see any of the paths I've covered so far be in that region. Two clicks to the east, passing through Melas Chasma, is the Transverse Highway and the Geneva Spur.
• It invented a Mars Helicopter Scout program that doesn't exist
• It accepted as fact my statement that Ingenuity can fly as high as 50m
• It then detected I was contrdicting myself and making things up, but gave an old max altitude of 10m (it's 18m)
• It deactivated the account
@mnalis
Despite the many great achievements, science and technology in general has not been able to drive political processes to desirable outcomes (with rare exceptions), when it cannot favorably promote corporate interests.
In sci-fi fantasies, like in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy, scientists revolt and become warriors for the common good. In reality, few risk their carriers.
"Humanity has a decision to make. We stand today at the brink of a new age, at a fork in the road of our own survival. We can become another extinct species, a blink in time in the natural history of the earth, or we can recognize that water is so vital to our continued existence that we must find a new way to live with it, manage it, and protect it. A bad future is possible; it’s just not the future we would choose if we had a choice." --Peter Gleick
@petergleick
article. In #SciFi utopias, like in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy, the scientist becomes a hero. That. will. not. happen. here. What WILL happen is that billions of poor people affected by the cataclysmic changes will try to flood the developed countries seeking their survival, and developed countries will turn to fascism, in one form or another, to preserve their deteriorating social cohesion. Most now sympathetic to the suffering will turn a blind eye to a much
#Curiosity ran out of instructions and had no work to do, due to some issues with the #DSN, #NASA's Deep Space Network. For just a little while, that is.
The image below was captured a few sols earlier. It reminds me of the Acheron Fin in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy novels, where the biomedical team developed a longevity treatment; only, it is thousands of times smaller.
We may get to see what those pioneers of the #FirstHundred Martian colonists were seeing in the mid 2050s, when the Japanese JAXA mission #MMX arrives there in 2025. It will return to Earth with samples of Phobos' ground on 2029.
(Confused with mixed up time? 😀 )
Here are some cities from #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy: it appears the dust storm is in the area of Senzeni Na. Phobos should be somewhere on the equator, between Sheffield and Nicosia, but appears more to the south due to the position of the spacecraft 🤓
Burroughs and Bradbury Point are now localized with certainty, using my Little Assistant™to search #MarsTrilogy for cities and other geographical features. It came back with a treasure trove of results, but also made it clear that putting them in order will not be as easy as it seemed before.
As it turns out, the city Burroughs that came to be considered the "capital" of Mars before it was destroyed, was just 225km ESE of Jezero Crater!
Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.
Localization of the first trip to the North Pole in #KimStanleyRobinson's #RedMars, with a stop at Chasma Boreale, where an Ice Miner was dropped by air at coordinates 41 W, 83 N to extract water for use in Underhill.
The first map is a polar projection showing the trip from Underhill to the North Pole.