Mars descends on Greenwich: Luke Jerram’s Martian masterpiece fills the Painted Hall

This winter, Mars, the god of war, has arrived at the Old Royal Naval College in the form of a 7-metre-wide floating replica of the Martian planet.This is Luke Jerram’s travelling exhibition, a companion to his representations of the Moon and Earth. Here, Mars hangs within Greenwich’s painted hall.
The artwork is an exact to-scale recreation of Mars, featuring detailed NASA imagery of the Martian surface, just one million times smaller than the original.
Slowly rotating inside the pa