{"id":351,"date":"2012-12-06T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/12\/06\/ludovic-celles-mars-space-elevator-concepts-and-triptych\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:38:16","slug":"ludovic-celles-mars-space-elevator-concepts-and-triptych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/12\/06\/ludovic-celles-mars-space-elevator-concepts-and-triptych\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludovic Celle’s Mars Space Elevator Concepts and Triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ludovic’s commentary: “Imagine yourself in the warmth of a comfortable rover, automatically<\/div>\n
ascending the endless flank of Pavonis Mons, one of Mars’ giant volcanos. Outside, the
\ntemperature is below -120\u00b0C. Up there on the horizon, slowly appearing is the shining tent of
\nSheffield, the famous liftport of the space elevator. The elevator’s cable stands straight and
\ndisappears among the stars. This all makes you feel you already are in orbit…<\/div>\n
Sheffield is 3 kilometres away. You will be there in half an hour. The intense town’s activity, busy
\nwith hundreds of passengers for the cable, will be a huge contrast to the lonely and silent
\nascent you just accomplished in the dark and red night. Altitude 14 km, where starts the space
\nelevator that will take you right in space in a few hours.<\/div>\n
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As said on MangalaWiki<\/a>, “because of its high altitude, Sheffield is condemned to
\nremain a tented city.”<\/div>\n
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This photo-montage is a lot inspired by a sequence in Red Mars : Ann Clayborne alone in her
\nrover, making the very very long ascent of Olympus Mons and going so high that it feels like in
\nspace. This photo-montage here is a kind of transcription of this scene on Pavonis Mons.”<\/div>\n
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Ludovic’s commentary:\u00a0“This shows the ‘space end’ of the cable. In Red Mars, Kim Stanley
\nRobinson tells the setting of an asteroid in high martian orbit, as a necessary mass keeping the
\nspace elevator cable straight. This asteroid, Clarke, is named after science fiction writer Arthur
\nC. Clarke, who described the space elevator concept in one of his novels. (learn more here<\/a>) KSR
\nimagines that the cable is made directly from Clarke, with the asteroid’s material, mined and
\nturned in carbon nanotubes, made in space! This photomanipulation works with the one below
\nshowing Sheffield, the town where the cable rises from the surface of Mars. KSR describes the
\ncable as being 35.000 km long and 10m thick. More than just a useful mass for the cable’s
\nbalance, Clarke is a base in itself, a spaceport full of docks, living and working areas for the
\npeople involved in space travel, space cargos as well as a spacious station for travelers of all
\nkinds. What we don’t see in the picture are the spaceships waiting for passengers leaving Mars
\nor bringing new ones to Mars.”<\/div>\n
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“….this image is between the two ends of the cable. On this point of view we are still
\nvery close to the surface and very very far to the mid-distance of the cable, still
\nthousands kilometers away…”<\/div>\n
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“Here is a new montage showing the base of the space elevator on the tented town called
\n“Sheffield”, built on the summit of Pavonis Mons volcano (see Red Mars). The cable is supposed
\nto be 10m thick, which means here than Sheffield city is very big here, at a large level of
\ndevelopment. On the foreground, you can see coloured urban lights. I imagine the main entry
\nto the planet’s surface would like to be a rich and welcoming show for new settlers. I also
\nimagine the tent’ skin would be blue, to balance the so red and grey landscape.”<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr<\/a><\/div>\n
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For details on the space elevator in KSR’s Mars trilogy,<\/div>\n
read the space elevator page of MangalaWiki<\/a>, the wiki of KSR-info<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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