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Exoplanet Travel Bureau

This set of travel posters envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now. Guided tours in English and Spanish and 360° visualizations and mission posters.

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A retro looking travel poster for the exoplanet Kepler-16b shows a human standing on a rocky world with two suns large in the foreground. There is a larger white-yellowish sun, with a smaller orang sun. The person, seen from behind, has two criss-crossing shadows between an outcropping of rocks, reminiscent of the American Southwest. Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas giant, like Saturn, so it would have no solid surface to stand on. The view here is of and from an imagined nearby moon. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice.
An imagined view from a moon of the exoplanet Kepler-16 b.
NASA/JPL-Caltech