255-mars-base-dixon – This wide, expansive space art landscape documents an early human reconnaissance mission on the Martian surface, establishing the full traditional canvas from which later compositions were derived. In the right foreground, two astronauts in heavy pressure suits assemble a portable parabolic communication dish on a rugged, deep red rocky ridge, with a cable trailing toward an uncrewed exploration rover parked on the left. In the middle distance valley, a sleek, black-and-white vertical biconic rocket lander sits resting on its landing legs with its egress ladder extended. The background features steep, highly eroded crimson mountains and a smooth, pale orange sky where the two tiny crescent moons, Phobos and Deimos, hang low. acrylic and gouache, around 1993
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