420-First-Rains-02-dixon 420-first-rains-02-dixon – The first rains may have fallen for a thousand years, filling craters on the young earth to form shallow seas. An expansive primordial landscape depicts the early Archean Earth experiencing its initial condensation epoch, with heavy rainfall cascading over barren, craggy volcanic rock. Twin waterfalls cut through the foreground terrain, draining into a complex network of pooling basins and a vast inland sea under a dark, turbulent sky. Intense forks of atmospheric lightning strike the distant horizon, illuminating the rugged topography and reflecting off the newly formed bodies of liquid water.Digital painting, 2004, for Scientific American.
420-first-rains-02-dixon – The first rains may have fallen for a thousand years, filling craters on the young earth to form shallow seas. An expansive primordial landscape depicts the early Archean Earth experiencing its initial condensation epoch, with heavy rainfall cascading over barren, craggy volcanic rock. Twin waterfalls cut through the foreground terrain, draining into a complex network of pooling basins and a vast inland sea under a dark, turbulent sky. Intense forks of atmospheric lightning strike the distant horizon, illuminating the rugged topography and reflecting off the newly formed bodies of liquid water.Digital painting, 2004, for Scientific American.
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