040-mars-dixon –The Red Planet dominates the sky of Deimos, its outer moon, in this gouache-on-paper painting from 1974. The Martian disk displays classic albedo features, including Syrtis Major and the bright northern polar cap, with subtle variations in surface coloration across its deserts. In the foreground, the low-gravity moon's landscape is highly textured, filled with deep depressions and rough rocky ridges illuminated by a distant sun.
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