I just sent this email to my literary partner, Rich:
How about videos that show Mars like this
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030827.html, as seen through Hubble. But where that photo shows a thin blue ring around Mars, how about a rainbow circle around that planet, a circular rainbow frame for that world? The sound-track would be Vangelis's "Chariots of Fire" (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDiikPDwxmQ).* What do you think of naming Mars's first settlement "Csillaghegyi City"? :-)
Anyone for Mars?
*This video's just as lovely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zOKnHx2lGM