020-mars-polar-cap-dixon – This illustration presents a striking overhead, close-up perspective of a Martian polar cap region, showcasing the stark interaction between ice and dust. The left portion of the frame features heavily textured, pale-toned frosted terrains pockmarked with ancient craters and etched with complex, stepped valleys. This icy sheet gives way along a highly irregular, fractured boundary to the deep, rust-red basaltic plains of the Martian desert, which are scattered with sharp-rimmed impact craters on the right. An early oil on Masonite study, 1974
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