After the Curiosity rover proved itself for 15 long years on the job, its successor, the Mars 2020 Rover, is on the way. According to Associate Administrator, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA has already begun fueling the new rover in preparation for its launch window between July 17 and August 5, next year. Much like Curiosity, the…

We usually save the less designy, more artisticy stuff for the Friday Smackdown, but these images are just too good to pass up. Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea is a surreal vision of life(?) on Mars as photograpghed and digitally enhanced by Kahn & Selesnick. The aspect we find fascinating is not only the…