Viking One departs earth enroute to Mars, venting fuel from the discarded booster creates a blue glow ; gouache on illustration board, 1975
Viking fires its engines above Mars to become the first artificial object to orbit another planet ; gouache on illustration board, 1975
Viking's engines shut off and it drops to a soft landing. Color of the Martian sky is as conceived prior to first landing ; acrylic and gouache on masonite,…
As the lander explores the surface, the Viking Orbiter photographs Mars and its moons and serves as a radio relay ; gouache on illustration board, 1975
Phobos and Deimos poised above horizon of Mars
Valles Kasei 2 - Dry river valley on Mars, based on sketch made below Zabriskie's Point in Death Valley
Mars sketched while observing through a 6" Newtonian reflector telescope under excellent conditions.
First Step on Deimos - an astronaut drifts down to the surface of Mars' inner moon, pulled by its feeble gravity
astronauts set up Mars base at edge of ancient river valley - painting by Don Dixon
a spaceship orbits above a domed base on Mars' inner moon
Hamilton Collection plate commemorating landing of Viking One on Chryse Planitia, Mars, July 20, 1976
Buzz Aldrin Mars Cycler - painting by Don Dixon for Scientific American
Astronauts set up a relay antenna near a Mars colony. Digital, 2005
Astronauts set up a relay antenna near a Mars colony. Version 2. Digital, 2005.
View of the dusty Martian surface from the flanks of Nanedi Valles, an ancient flow channel. Oil on masonite, 2006. © 2007 Don Dixon / cosmographica.com cosmographica home
The larger Martian moon Phobos, known at the time of this painting to be a dark, potato shaped asteroidal body, orbits about 3,700 miles above Mars. Gouache on…
sinuous valleys course for hundreds of miles across the Martian desert, providing evidence of ancient rivers. Gouache on illustration board, 1975. artwork © Don…
Mars' grand canyon stretches for nearly 3,000 miles - gouache on illustration board painting by Don Dixon, 1974. The Martian sky is incorrectly depicted as deep…
Asteroid Impact on Mars Ejects Meteorites to Earth - digital, 1997, © Don Dixon
Fog fills the valleys at the edge of Mars great canyon, the Mariner Valley. Acrylic on canvas, 1990