Seen These Concept Drawings For Mars Lander For Film "Last Days On Mars"?

[Cacique Caribe]

Zombie astronauts aside:



I wanted to share these drawings I found, just in case anyone here needs a little added inspiration in making cool SF vehicles:







Here is Pierce's website:
http://christianpearce.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-last-days-on-mars-lander-concept.html
http://christianpearce.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-last-days-on-mars-rover-concept.html

[YPU]

Very cool!

[Garanhir]

Air intakes? On Mars?

That spot of pedantry (sorry, I get like this with my SF sometimes) aside, they are quite interesting.

[Dezmond]

A swift googling suggests the potential for jet engines burning magnesium powder directly in Mars' 95% CO2 atmosphere

Plus I think those ideas for nuclear powered jet engines using a reactor to heat the air instead of fuel combustion would still work on Mars