157-mars-panorama-dixon – cover for Gregory Benford's novel The Martian Race, this panoramic astronomical illustration depicts a rugged Martian plain strewn with dark, heavily textured boulders and undulating sand drifts. Patchy, bright white surface frost clings to low-lying depressions in the foreground, catching the ambient light. Above the distant, uneven horizon, the two small crescent moons, Phobos and Deimos, hang close together in the upper-right sky. acrylic and gouache, around 2004
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