Whimsical NASA Posters Tease What the Future of Space Travel Could Look Like

Whimsical posters advertise for destinations around the solar system.

ByABC News
February 12, 2016, 10:53 AM

— -- The sky is no longer the limit.

NASA released a series of whimsical posters for destinations in our solar system -- giving a glimpse of what space exploration could look like sometime in the distant future.

The series of posters were released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and provide a dreamy perspective of what our solar system has to offer.

PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.

One of the posters shows a luxurious looking Venus: "See you at the Cloud 9 Observatory" the poster says. Another shows hot air balloons and advertises "the might auroras" of Jupiter. A trip to the exoplanet Kepler 16-B, which orbits two suns, is advertised as the place "where your shadow always has company."

PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.

"At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality," the team behind the posters wrote. "As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future."

PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
PHOTO:NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.
NASA released a series of posters touting space exploration destinations.