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Dione, Daybreak

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Concept art for my Orion's Arm future history setting. A System States Era EVA pod and Orbital LH2 depot over Saturn’s moon Dione.  

EVA Pod (Foreground Image Right) on orbital debris mitigation duty. The EVA pod’s home base is an orbital LH2 depot (Middle Distance, Image Left) bright with anti-collision lighting and warning beacons.

Orbital propellant depots play a key role in my Orion’s Arm future history setting —and in reality they would be key pieces of orbital infrastructure for any extensive in-space venture, such as asteroid mining or a serious effort to colonize Mars. In my future history such depots are established early during the period of Martian colonization to support orbital infrastructure building and asteroid mining, and later are constructed at Callisto in Jupiter orbit, and later at Titan in Saturn orbit, as part of the infrastructure in support of the Mars terraforming program. By the advent of the System States Era of my future history, with populations climbing into the millions among the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, industrial scale depots for hydrogen, oxygen, and water orbit several moons in the Jupiter and Saturn systems. Depots supplying nitrogen, ethane, and methane, along with organic compounds for industrial use, orbit Titan.

A note on visual scale:

The Orbital Propellant Depot is 1,500 feet in length, LH2 Tanks are 300 feet in diameter. For an artistic rendering and more detail see: Enceladus Depot.

For EVA Pod scale reference and other specifications see EVA Pod Diagram.

About the Composition:

Back drop is PIA07745, courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image has been enlarged from the original.

PIA07745 Original Caption Released with Image:

As it departed its encounter with Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini sailed above an unreal landscape blasted by impacts. The rising Sun throws craters into sharp contrast and reveals steep crater walls.

At the far right, a medium-sized crater is bisected by a fracture, revealing a cross section of the impact site.

The seven clear-filter images in this mosaic were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 11, 2005, at distances ranging from of 21,650 to 25,580 kilometers (13,450 to 15,890 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 154 degrees. Resolution in the original images ranges from 126 to 154 meters (413 to 505 feet) per pixel. The images have been re-sized to have an image scale of about 100 meters (330 feet) per pixel. North on Dione is 140 degrees to the left.

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grisador's avatar
Awesome Artworks :D

They are Soo Like ALİEN/Dead Space .... Only difference is This one is Real !