351-mars-launch-dixon – Mars Direct Earth Return Vehicle Launches From Mars. A biconic Martian ascent vehicle blasts off from a rugged, dust-covered mountain ridge, its clustered engine bells firing with intense incandescent thrust. The rocket power kicks up a violent exhaust plume of surface dust and flame against the rocky topography below. The landscape and the wide, open sky are drenched in a uniform, deep monochromatic rust tone, capturing the thin, dusty atmospheric conditions of the Red Planet. digital, for Scientific American
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