319-approaching-deimos-dixon – A recently discovered very early oil on canvas painting dating from 1972 shows a spacecraft maneuvering near Mars's outer moon. Outdated concept of Deimos. This striking space art composition looks across the jagged, irregular ridges of Mars’ outer moon, Deimos, as a nuclear rocket fires its attitude thrusters to approach the small moon. Mars fills the background as a massive, dark crescent, its illuminated limb revealing a thin orange haze layer. The sun blazes in the distance.
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