PASSENGER / EXPLORER One last look
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EXPLORER / 01 CMV EXPLORER ARCADIA-BOUND · CONCEPT SPACECRAFT
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About this flight Your starting point is real. The spacecraft, ascent and city are imagined. The departure map dissolves into a 3D globe; this is not live aerial footage. One camera follows a fixed-size vessel through a shared solar-system scene. An orange marker identifies it when it becomes too small to see. The spacecraft never leaves its Earth–Mars route. The transfer illustrates an idealized Earth–Mars orbit, not a launch available today. Engines are off during cruise. The vehicle turns for the approach burn. Camera motion and time are compressed; sound represents an onboard cinematic soundtrack.
Earth textures: Solar System Scope · CC BY 4.0 . Mars science: NASA .
THE REAL & THE IMAGINED A real planet. Landmarks and landing markers use approximate geographic coordinates. Rover markers indicate historical landing sites, not live positions. This atlas is a curated selection, not a complete mission database.
Green marks CaptureMars’s imagined City 01: 100 founding places in the 2026 edition. No 2027 city, location, quantity or opening date is set. Published Mars research can inform future concepts; CaptureMars decides its releases. No mission or scientific agency has approved this fictional zoning. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission was an orbiter, not a surface landing.
Surface texture: Solar System Scope , CC BY 4.0 . Resized and displayed with simulated lighting. Based on NASA data, with artistic adjustments and filled gaps.
The detailed masterplan contains 100 digital addresses: 40 homes, 24 farms, 24 studios and 12 launch ateliers. Free designs can be saved to an account and shared by choice. Sharing shows the name, message and optional website in the gallery; account email is never included. When purchasing is enabled, CaptureMars holds one address during Stripe checkout and assigns it to one signed-in account only after verified payment. The assignment lasts for the operating life of CaptureMars; it is not real land, a legal deed or an investment. Growing and launch scenes are fictional activities, not biological or engineering simulations.NASA Mars24 equations . TT–UTC is fixed at 69.184 seconds; this is not a mission clock. Solar-wind particles are a visual explanation in orbit, not visible surface wind. Dust and city activity are simulations. Ordinary helmets are not protection from a major radiation event. The zones are planning overlays, not protection from planetary weather. The launch craft represents a 100-metre vehicle at planetary scale; the bright tracking point and trail are visual aids, not the size of the rocket. Rotation and flight timing are cinematic, not real-time orbital telemetry. The close arrival uses an original fictional crew lander and a conceptual residence, not a physically validated landing simulation. Earth’s sky placement is artistic, not calculated from an ephemeris. The heritage display uses NASA’s InSight model from the NASA 3D Resources collection , without implying NASA endorsement.NASA landing sites · Planetary Society coordinates · USGS nomenclature · NASA subsurface ice