Gallery: Visions of Interstellar Starship Travel

Troy Vehicle

Adrian Mann

The proposed Troy vehicle's transit time to Mars would be 264 days, and on arrival, the three landing modules would be deployed to land at a pre-selected site, forming a base. Three precursor ships would be sent, forming three bases on Mars that would enable the rovers to reach more than 90 percent of the Martian surface.

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Contributing artist and writer

Mann, a former contributor to Space.com, is a Hungary-based space illustrator and a graphical engineer for Project Icarus, which is involved with researching possibilities for future interstellar travel. He's a freelance web designer, graphic designer, artist and illustrator, specializing in the areas of aerospace and astronomy.