In 2021 planetary scientist, the director of Haughton-Mars Venture, Pascal Lee created a portray with the identical, barely up to date scene of the primary human exploration mission on Mars as in Chesley Bonestell’s well-known portray “Exploring Mars” featured within the 1956 ebook “The Exploration of Mars” by Willy Ley and Wernher Von Braun.
Highlighting Bonestell’s legacy, Pascal Lee wrote: “In portray this new “Exploring Mars”, I wished to pay tribute to the grand grasp of house artwork and his creation of an iconic traditional, but in addition replace parts of the panorama and {hardware} in mild of recent data gained about Mars within the intervening 65 years and evolutions in our fascinated with future Mars exploration methods and human floor operations.”
Comparability of Bonestell’s (1956) and Lee’s (2021) “Exploring Mars”:
