342 - Sunrise on Mercury
341-mercury-corona-dixon – Sunrise on Mercury - wisps of the solar corona herald sunrise on Mercury - acrylic and gouache painting on illustration board, 1998 by Don Dixon
Sunrise over the Caloris Basin on Mercury
337-mercury-caloris-basin-dixon – This painting offers a dramatic low-orbit view of Mercury, focusing on the massive Caloris Basin under a brilliant, oversized Sun. The immense impact crater dominates the middle distance, its ringed walls and fractured floor casting soft shadows across the sun-baked, ancient terrain. cover November, 1997, Scientific American - acrylic and gouache painting © by Don Dixon
256-Sun-Over-Mercury
56-sun-over-mercury-dixon – This striking landscape painting depicts a low sunrise from the rugged, airless surface of Mercury. A massive, brilliant Sun hangs just over the horizon, casting a sharp, low-angle light that accentuates a complex terrain of ancient impact craters, steep ridges, and heavily textured regolith. The intense solar glare is surrounded by an expansive corona of streaming blue and white field lines extending into a stark, black sky.
037-Mercury-Flyby
037-mercury-flyby-dixon –This historic illustration depicts the Mariner 10 spacecraft executing a close flyby over the heavily cratered surface of Mercury. The robotic probe, complete with its characteristic solar panels, high-gain dish antenna, and elongated magnetometer boom, glides above an ancient landscape pockmarked by overlapping impact basins. In the distance, a large Sun rises over the curved planetary horizon, casting long shadows across the airless, rocky terrain and illuminating the scene in warm, dust-brown tones.
032-Sunrise-On-Mercury-1
032-sunrise-on-mercury-1-dixon –This dramatic painting captures a striking sunrise as seen from a rugged canyon on the planet Mercury. Framed by towering, dark rock formations and jagged cliffs, a brilliant, intense Sun rises into a pitch-black, star-filled sky, Oil on Masonite, 1974. artwork © Don Dixon/cosmographica.com