Thursday, January 08, 2015

NASA Made These Gorgeous Travel Posters For Actual Exoplanets


NASA Made These Gorgeous Travel Posters For Actual Exoplanets
As the exoplanet discoveries from Kepler keep pouring in, we’re realising just how fantastic, bizarre, and varied the planets of our universe truly are. Someday, we might see them with our own eyes. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a stunning set of exoplanet travel posters that will make you wish very hard that someday is now.

The posters instantly reminded me of two recent things: the blockbuster Interstellar and a little short film that was being passed around the internet called Wanderers. Many of Interstellar‘s most memorable shots were of astronauts exploring eerie alien planets, either sheathed in ice or beset by mountain-high tides. And in Wanderers, humans tour the solar system, flying in wing suits above Titan and riding a dirigible on Mars.

The Exoplanet Travel Bureau, as these posters are labelled, taps into that same curiosity about the imaginable but unreachable corners of our universe. Here are HD 40307g, Kepler-186f, and Kepler-16b, the premiere travel destinations of the far future. All three posters are available for download in high-res from JPL’s website.

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