Sentences with phrase «alien landscapes on»

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed this extraordinary alien landscape on our planetary neighbor.

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The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

822 Martian days after landing, NASA's Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, continues on its extraordinary journey across landscapes that are both utterly alien, and remarkably familiar.

On a July day in 1969, the world watched intently as astronaut Neil Armstrong, wearing one of these garments, stepped off a ladder and onto a dusty, alien terrain, forever changing the landscape both of the moon and of human history.

The MER mission is to reveal the hidden geology of a truly alien landscape but a basic question underlying this 12 - year - old mission, according to Squyres, is whether there has ever been organic life on Mars and, if so, does it persist today somewhere on or beneath the surface?

«The amazing results from New Horizons have revealed that Pluto is not just a tiny ice ball on the edge of the solar system, but in fact it is a complex world of its own with vast, alien landscapes containing clues to the geological history of this dwarf planet,» he said.

Rather like an extremely damped - down There Will Be Blood, Reichardt's film — based on historical events — depicts one group's journey through the Oregon Trail in 1845 as a trek through a hauntingly empty and alien landscape, with cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt exquisitely taking in the natural beauties of the settings while framing the increasingly desperate wanderers in wide shots to emphasize, in part, their ultimate smallness within the wild west.

That unique mindset grounds everything: because we're focused on the basic challenges of day - to - day existence, our brains don't question that this is all taking place on an alien planet; the stunning scarlet landscapes (shot with unfussy style by Ridley Scott) are second to the mathematical athletics on display; the prospect of space travel is nothing compared to the mind - bending number of disco tunes in the possession of Chastain's guilt - ridden leader — if there's one thing Blade Runner's missing, it's Abba.

«Man of Steel» excels at reclaiming the Superman saga as science fiction by conceiving alien landscapes that look like they originated on the cover of a»30s pulp magazine.

Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, and Jennifer Jason Leigh play a team of scientists who go into an alien landscape here on Earth that no one has ever come back from.

a.) It starred a fresh - faced, pre-Freddie Krueger Robert Englund; b.) the sets and alien landscapes were done by a certain James Cameron (you might have heard of him), who served as production designer and second unit director on the film; and c.) a scene in which a woman is raped to death by a giant maggot space alien monster.

I grew up on the edge of the Everglades, and even in my childhood in the early 1960s, the advent of alien animals into the landscape was nothing new.

Home to some of the most stunning views on Earth, the sublime landscapes offer so many unimaginably unique views that dozens of our favourite Hollywood science - fiction alien worlds have been inspired by and even filmed here!

The salt is actually a crust on a large lake, which creates an alien and desolate landscape.

To further advance technologies and thrive on the planet, traverse into a world filled equally with breathtaking landscapes and alien terrors that will freeze your blood.

Nex Machina is the pinnacle of this process, a frenzied twin - stick blaster set on connected alien landscapes swarming with enemies and power - ups.

With the help of his 4 - year - old son, Sheldon captures images of his son on adventures in what would be considered an alien landscape to wondering eyes.

In 2016, Mutu opened a second studio in Nairobi, and this return to her «alien mother,» as the artist has referred to it, has catalyzed a transformation in her work.4 Fresh materials and methods referencing the Kenyan landscape — such as the distinctive rust - colored clay of Nairobi's volcanic soil and a dark, coal - like paper pulp — evidence a shift in the artist's focus from primarily two - dimensional works to the earthy, the organic, and the spiritual, with an emphasis on three - dimensional forms and performance - based installations, as well as the playful and imaginative opportunities of video animation.

Meow Wolf's first supersize - scale public art project, The Due Return, was a lavishly built ship «settled on an alien landscape» that occupied Center for Contemporary Arts from mid-May to late August 2011.

It's a decidedly weird sculptural theme park — from the huge swirling earthworks designed by Charles Jencks, to a 12 - metre - high Marc Quinn, each piece exists as an alien intrusion on the landscape; the latest artist to join them is Pablo Bronstein.

New works by Mike Glier Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to present «With All The Holes In You Already There's No Reason To Define The Outside Environment As Alien» *, an exhibition of recent paintings, drawings, and wall drawings by Mike Glier based on his observation of the Northeast landscape as it cycles through the seasons.

From her earliest experiments with painting old - master landscapes as graffiti on the streets of New York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC (2013) at the Corcoran in Washington, DC, Ellen Harvey (born 1967) has applied her unique and humorous perspective to unpacking the history of art and aesthetics.

It is important to note that these impacts do not take account of ancillary stresses on species due to over-harvesting, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, alien species invasions, fire regime change, pollution (such as nitrogen deposition), or for plants the potentially beneficial effects of rising atmospheric CO2.

Exploring The Burren — an alien - looking limestone landscape on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, which has been used for cattle farmers as winter grazing land (winter grazing is unheard of in much of the rest of Europe) for more than 6,000 years.