Three days left in NASA’s Mars Base design challenge

Do you think your design for a virtual Mars base is good enough to live in? Then you’ve got three days left to submit it to NASA.

That’s right, the 3D content sharing site Thingiverse from MakerBot Industries LLC is teaming up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the MakerBot Mars Challenge.

The sustainable base by VFXBase. (Image courtesy MakerBot Thingiverse.)

There are already more than 100 submissions in the competition, which began May 30.

The first prize is a trip to Mars. No, just kidding. The first prize is a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer.

Mars Base Station System by positron18. (Via MakerBot Thingiverse.)

Of particular interest to OpenSim users is that Thingiverse content is generally Creative Commons licensed. That means that many of these models can be downloaded and imported into OpenSim grids — though they may have to be imported into Blender or another 3D modeling program first, to be converted to Collada or scaled down.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.