It looks like the futuristic space truck from Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus but this is Nasa’s visionary new Mars rover which could one day provide transport for manned missions to the Red Planet.

The giant six-wheeled concept vehicle was unveiled at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex this week.

Made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium, the electric and solar-powered truck is 28 feet (8.5m) long, 13 feet (4m) wide, and designed to accommodate four astronauts. It even has its own detachable laboratory, for extraterrestrial fieldwork.

Nasa already has two robot ‘rovers’ on Mars but the space agency has vowed to plant human colonies on the Red Planet by the 2030s and so is looking ahead to transportation needs.