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William Lager

NASA wants you -- on Mars

Be a martian explorer
NASA released their Mars explorer poster series to the public.
NASA

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Mars is a harsh, unforgiving landscape inhospitable to humans. But you'd never know it from the recruiting posters.

Hoping to kindle public interest in the red planet, NASA in 2009 commissioned a series of "Mars Explorers Wanted" posters for an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

This week, they were made available for anyone to view and download.

Humans have been intently watching Mars since they first saw it in the night sky. Public and private sector explorers are working on the science of actually sending humans to Mars, but they aren't there yet.

So while martian employment opportunities remain up in the air, the posters at least can now be downloaded for free.

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Marathon Valley
"Marathon Valley" on Mars opens to a view across Endeavour Crater in this scene from the Pancam of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity. The scene merges many exposures taken during April and May 2016. The view spans from north (left) to west-southwest. Its foreground shows the valley's fractured texture.
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Cornell Univ. | Arizona State Univ.
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Explorers wanted!
Explorers wanted! Hike the solar system's largest canyon, Valles Marineris on Mars, where you can catch blue sunsets in the twilight, and see the two moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) in the night sky.
NASA | KSC
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Work the night shift on mars
Night owls welcome! If you lived on Mars' moon Phobos, you'd have an office with a view, mining for resources with Mars in the night sky. Settlers below on Mars would see Phobos rise and set not once, but twice in one day!
NASA | KSC