While moon is just a small satellite of planet earth, Mars is a true planet. While Mars is only about half as big as earth, it’s total surface area is about the same as Earth’s dry land due to the fact that it doesn’t have any oceans or seas.

Mars pathfinder’s successful mission has enabled us to take a close look at the surface of Mars.

And here’s the whole picture of Mars:

Orbit of Mars:

And here’s the detail about how we’re going to colonize it: http://www.orionsarm.com/worlds/Mars.html

Our first step to the space – is to colonize the moon and make it our launch pad.

Picture 1 – The waning crescent Moon. The darkside is illuminated by earthshine.

Picture 2 – Lunar Geography

Picture 3 – Close look at the Lunar Surface

What kinda of world we live in?

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons:

The Universe Within.

One of Hubble’s latest 59 picture album featuring Galaxy Collision. This particular one is AM0500-620, 350 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dorado, the Swordfish.