Gallery: Posters to inspire the next generation of space explorers
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Jet Propulsion Laboratories, which operates some of the highest profile NASA probe programs, is looking to inspire the next generation of space explorers.
Invoking the aesthetics of atomic-age tourism posters of the 1950s, JPL on Wednesday released a series of poster images celebrating celestial destinations — some of the newly discovered exoplanets, our neighbors across the solar system and some of their moons — through the eyes of an interplanetary travel agency.
Each poster is grounded in the science of the locale, such as the ice geysers of Enceladus, the newly discovered water of Ceres, or the heavy gravity of HD 40307g, and each adds a twist of what if.
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