{"id":523,"date":"2012-08-09T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/09\/daein-ballard-terraformed-mars-with-musk-quotes\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:18:53","slug":"daein-ballard-terraformed-mars-with-musk-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/09\/daein-ballard-terraformed-mars-with-musk-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daein Ballard Terraformed Mars (with Musk Quotes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Mars is the only place\u00a0\u00a0in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian. We could make Mars like Earth\u2026 it’s more than our life raft, it’s like backing up the biosphere.”<\/p>\n

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“In his vision of colonizing Mars, musk isn’t looking to send highly trained astronauts to perform science and return to Earth. He’s looking to send people like you and me, at a price a corporation could subsidize.”<\/p>\n

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“I think it would be the most difficult thing that humanity has ever tried to do. The Earth has been around for four billion years and in all that time, it’s been confined to one planet. That’s a long time\u2026 And now for the first time in almost four billion years, it’s been possible \u2014 very difficult, but possible \u2014 for life to extend to another planet. If we can take advantage of that opportunity, who knows how long that window will be open?”<\/p>\n

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(Gorgeous) Image by Daein Ballard:<\/p>\n

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Artist’s conception of a terraformed Mars. This portrayal is approximately centered on the prime meridian<\/a>, 30 degrees north latitude<\/a>. The hypothesized oceans are depicted with sea level at approximately two kilometers<\/a> below average surface elevation. The ocean submerges what are now Vastitas Borealis<\/a>, Acidalia Planitia<\/a>, Chryse Planitia<\/a>, and Xanthe Terra<\/a>; the visible landmasses are Tempe Terra<\/a> at left, Aonia Terra<\/a> at bottom, Terra Meridiani<\/a> at lower right, and Arabia Terra<\/a> at upper right. Rivers that feed the ocean at lower right occupy what are now Valles Marineris<\/a> and Ares Vallis<\/a>, while the large lake at lower right occupies what is now Aram Chaos<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Mars is the only place\u00a0\u00a0in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian. We could make Mars like Earth\u2026 it’s more than our life raft, it’s like backing up the biosphere.” “In his vision of colonizing Mars, musk isn’t looking to send highly trained astronauts to perform science and return to Earth. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}