323-viking-landing-dixon –Hamilton Collection plate commemorating landing of Viking One on Chryse Planitia, Mars, July 20, 1976. This classic space art painting captures the historic moment of a Viking lander hovering just moments before touchdown on the Martian surface. The spacecraft’s terminal descent engines fire downward, scouring the rock-strewn desert floor and kicking up localized dust circles. The landing site is covered in dark, iron-rich volcanic boulders under a smooth, pale pinkish-orange sky, with a small, bright Sun hanging low near the horizon. acrylic and gouache, 1994
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