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		AE-1 Fleet At Mars [108/140] Title: Atomic Electric Spaceship Fleet At Mars Catalog Number: SF-078 Original: Digital Created: 2000 Updated: 2007 Caption: The trajectory of each ship will not follow an elliptical path, but rather segments of spirals. After the first 2 hours of acceleration the ship will not have moved more than 20 miles farther away from its starting point near the space station. After 100 days and 376 revolutions around the earth it will have increased this distance to 100,000 miles. By the 115th day it will have moved beyond the orbit of the moon and 12 hours past the 124th day it will have escaped the bonds of the earth's gravity and moved into an orbit around the sun. On the 195th day the thrust unit will be turned 180 degrees and the ship will begin to decelerate. On the 276th day the thrust will again accelerate the ship, carrying it in to the orbit of Mars, where it will arrive on the 347th day. On the 402nd day the ship will have spiraled down to an altitude of 600 miles above Mars, where it will go into orbit. The descent to the surface is made via an ordinary chemical rocket. Now begins the descent from the 600-mile orbit. A parachute helps slow the fall of each "landing boat." When the rocket is only a few miles above the Martian surface, its engine begins firing. It eventually lands on four outrigger legs. The crew will not leave Mars for another 472 days. The trip back to the earth will be similar to the outgoing journey. Above text from page 382 of The Dream Machines by Ron Miller, copyright 1993 by Krieger Publishing Company The 1957 Mars Spaceships are re-created using Strata Studio Blitz 3d computer graphic program. The stars in the scene are made with Photoshop 3.0. and imported into into Strata as a backdrop.