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Mining Spacecraft Under the Antarctic Ice Shelf

After Steve Alten received his JPGs and BMPs of this mining platform spacecraft for both asteroids and ice-covered moons with liquid water oceans underneath, I then modified the illustration and detailed all of its decals and then added the divers and the six gilled sharks to the Antarctic seabed beneath a portion of an ice shelf.

Remember, it's the slowly rotating rocket exhausts in landing mode that melt the vehicle's circumphrence through the ice shelf to settle down on the sea bed where the drilling and recovery of the minerals, metals or petroleum can begin.

Mining spacecraft sustaining operational testing under the Antarctic ice shelf

Mining spacecraft sustaining operational testing under the Antarctic ice shelf