397-pluto-landscape-dixon –This detailed astronomical painting portrays a sweeping panoramic landscape on the surface of Pluto under a faint, distant Sun. The composition looks out across low, fractured plain structures and fields of nitrogen ice that stretch toward a flat horizon under a dark sky transitioning to a subtle blue atmospheric haze. In the foreground, dark, crystalline methane ice formations and rugged boulders block out a massive, heavily detailed crescent Charon hanging low in the upper left quadrant. painting by Don Dixon for Scientific American
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