text: Imagine a future where humans are skiing on the surface of a distant moon and living in floating cities on Venus - while Earth lies in ruin. That’s the future envisioned by an artist in a fantastic series of ‘tourism’ posters, showcasing his dream for how we might one day explore the stars. And he hopes the posters encourage us to expand our presence into the solar system - especially as our planet is vulnerable to cosmic disasters. Scroll down for video . Artist Frank McKeever from Florida created these amazing posters. They show how we could colonise various worlds in the solar system. Included are humans skiing on a moon of Uranus and living in cities on Mars. Others show life on Europa and near Saturn - and a destroyed Earth (shown) The posters were created by artist and entrepreneur Frank McKeever, 28, from St Augustine in Florida and his colleague Miranda. Mr McKeever runs an art business called Science Hype with his wife Nicole, where each of these posters can be bought. All the posters seen here are hand-drawn, and then taken into Photoshop and Illustrator to finish them off. Mr McKeever told MailOnline his inspiration for the posters came from his love of travel, retro-style designs and a love of space. ‘To us, it's reminiscent of ads that were displayed during the 60s, and seeing as that was the time of the Space Race, it just made sense to present space posters in that medium,’ he said. Perhaps the most striking image is the one of Earth seemingly destroyed and uninhabitable. It’s a future that has left many experts to recently call for more effort to be made to protect Earth from threats such as asteroids - and expand our presence into the solar system. ‘The destroyed Earth was big for me,’ said Mr McKeever. ‘I began thinking about the possibility of being hit by an asteroid - especially with the fact that a huge one just flew awfully close to us a few days ago.’ Another poster shows humans living on the surface of Mars in cities, which Frank says he thinks is ‘very possible’. He added: ‘I can see that happening in my lifetime. And I think it should.' On Mercury - the closest planet to the sun - is a large crater 960 miles (1,550km) wide called the Caloris Basin, which Mr McKeever thinks we might explore (left). Colonisation of Mars in the form of a city, meanwhile, is something that may also be a possibility (right) Venus is known to have an Earth-like band in its atmosphere about 30 miles (50km) above the surface, where some have said it could be possible to place floating space colonies (shown) Neptune has 14 known moons, the largest of which is Triton, which Mr McKeever thinks we might colonise (left). Maybe one day we will also return to the moon (right), with a destroyed Earth in the background - while one of the Apollo flags has been bleached white from radiation . Owing to the orbits of Earth and Mars, there are specific windows of opportunity when a mission can take place. Our planets come as close as 33.9 million miles (54.6 million km), but can be as distant as 250 million miles (400 million km). For this reason spacecraft to Mars, such as the Curiosity rover, have to launch in certain windows when the planets are aligned. The next window is open from January 2016 to April 2016, and will see the launch of two more missions to the red planet. For a future manned mission, they will need to launch out in one of the windows and return in another. Just getting there will take up to nine months. The astronauts will then be there waiting for a year until they can come back, again taking up to nine months - a total of around three years. Many have wondered whether it might be possible to colonise certain corners of the solar system before. Venus, for example, is known to have an Earth-like band in its atmosphere about 30 miles (50km) above the surface, where some have said it could be possible to place floating space colonies. In fact, in 1985 the Soviet Union sent two balloons into the atmosphere of Venus - Vega 1 and 2 - to provide key evidence for this potentially habitable band. Europa, meanwhile, has often been said to be a potential place to find life in the solar system - and Mr McKeever has imagined we might live there one day, too. Nasa is in the process of designing its unmanned Europa Clipper spacecraft, which would arrive at the moon of Jupiter in the 2020s and fly through geysers erupting from its surface. Using specialised instruments, it might be able to detect life in an underground ocean - if there is any there. The icy moon of Miranda (shown), meanwhile, is the smallest and innermost of the moons of Uranus. The gas giant planet is seen in the distance here above the horizon of the moon . Mr McKeever also imagines a future where we can tour the historic rings of Saturn (left), while Europa - known for its ice surface with geysers of water erupting - may one day be 'your new home' (right) ‘Space exploration and essentially spreading our seed is so important,' Mr McKeever continued. ‘Earth does not have enough resources to last all of us forever. We’ve looked up at the stars for thousands and thousands of years, always wondering what they are. ‘And now, while we do not yet have the ability to traverse the galaxy, we do have the ability to land on other terrestrial bodies such as the moon. ‘And technology is getting to where we will be able to land a human on Mars in just ten or twenty years. ‘That to me is absolutely remarkable. If you would have told this to someone 100 years ago, they would have thought you were out of your mind.’
target: Artist Frank McKeever from Florida created these amazing posters .
  They show how we might colonise various worlds in the solar system .
  Included are humans skiing on a moon and living in cities on Mars .
  Others show life on Europa and near Saturn - and a destroyed Earth .