287-red-mars-dixon – Red Mars - A giant spacecraft assembled from discarded Shuttle fuel tanks orbits over Mars, having transported the first colonists to the Red Planet. This cover painting for Kim Stanley Robinson's award-winning novel about the terraforming of Mars is part of the Planetary Society's digital "Martian Library" on the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in the arctic region of Mars on May 25, 2008. acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 15.5x19.5 inches, 1992; © Don Dixon
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