Blackbird Interactive has announced its critically acclaimed project with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Project Eagle, will be coming to Steam for free on November 27th. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released a set of screenshots that you can find below.
Project Eagle was a joint effort between NASA’s JPL and BBI to build a interactive diorama of a Mars base one hundred years from now. Set in Gale Crater in 2118, Project Eagle uses data from NASA’s HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to model terrain accurate to 1 meter.
Blackbird Interactive and JPL set out to create software which would inspire space travel. Together we wanted to publicly exhibit a project that shows what this medium could do for inspiring space exploration.
Jeff Norris, director of Mission Operations Innovation at JPL stated:
“There is an enormous opportunity for filling this great void in the industry today.”
Following in the footsteps of legendary space artist Chesley Bonestell, Project Eagle hopes to inspire new generations to dream of human settlement beyond planet Earth and support the exploration and colonization of our solar system.
Blackbird Interactive CEO, Rob Cunningham, added:
“Project Eagle was created by Blackbird in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of a wonderful talk by Dr. Jeff Norris at the DICE Summit in February of 2017. Jeff’s speech showed that art, when grounded in science, can capture the public imagination and even build support for the exploration of space. In keeping with Jeff’s idea we decided to make our future Mars Base simulation available for free so that as many people as possible could experience our little art-meets-science project. Hopefully, it might inspire them exactly as Jeff described!”
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Now this I want to get my hands on.
wet muricunt dreams ))
This is really cool. And it’s also a great way to get people more interested in actual space exploration. One of the largest reasons that the last time a man walked on the Moon was basically public interest waned. People felt “oh we’ve been there done that, we need to fix problems here on Earth” so the later Apollo missions were scuttled. And then it’s like it was forgotten about. Now with Space-X and the Various NASA Mars missions the public at-large interest has shot up massively in space exploration. NASA knows though that to keep the people interested long term they need to invest more in public exposure and culminate real lasting interest. This effort here looks like a great step in that direction. Good on them for thinking ahead. It shows me that this time they are serious about actually keeping the pedal down. Here’s to hoping!
It does look cool.
“a interactive diorama of a Mars base”
Interactive how? Can you do more than move around and look?
Nope, just move and read some descriptions of the base components
Have you downloaded it and… “used” it? I’m downloading it now.
Yep, “played” for 9 minutes and earned 5 of 6 achievements just looking around
THIS IS SEXIST!!!! THIS TYPE OF PROJECT IS ANTI-WOMEN BECAUSE WOMEN AREN’T INTO STEM.