Just a doodle with no story this time. Very similiar to one I did in Bryce about a year ago. The terrain and its texture are a colorized version of a false color photo taken in January, 2010, of an inverted crater in the Arabica Terra region of Mars. In the render, the inverted crater is in the middle and runs to the right. The city is located where the original crater rim ran. In reality, the dark brown sandy areas would be black because they are derived from basalt, a common black volcanic rock on Mars. Most craters are a depression but these mostly ancient craters rise above the plain Because they are so old, they filled with sediment over the eons and subsequent erosion stripped away the terrain around the filled crater. The surviving fill in this crater measures approximately 250 meters or about 800 feet in diameter. The entire picture from which the terrain was created measures 600 meters (or about 2,000 feet) in distance. Examples of such craters are fairly common on Mars and examples can be found on Earth as well. I have portrayed a time in Martian settlement that is about a hundred years later than the period I use for my "Matronaut" series. The sky is bluish because that is the dominant color of Martian sunsets--sort of opposite of what we experience on Earth. You will note that the sun and its corona are consierably smaller than if this were Earth. I have to say that I much prefer making my terrains in Bryce, rather than in Vue. In the latter they always come out overly bumpy and are much harder to smooth out the sharp corners of the terrain. Just my opinion. Yet in fairness, there are many things that can be done to a terrain in Vue that are not possible with Bryce. Thanks for all your visits and comments. Come again. Jeremy CREDITS: Vue6 Pro Studio, PSP 5. IW Air Car (Renderosity). A3 Lany (DAZ, Renderosity). EcoSystem: StoneMason's Greeble City Objects (DAZ). Terrain: created from a photo from NASA's MRO HiRise.