187-Moonscape
Moonscape - earth shines brightly in the black sky of the moon
197-Lunar-Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse - earth eclipses the sun as seen from the moon
282-Moon-Ice
Lunar ice field. water vapor deposited by comet impacts may have collected as frost in eternally shadowed craters near the moon's poles
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the newborn moon orbits within a ring of debris splashed out by the impact that formed it, over a molten earth
Hamilton Collection plate commemorating 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on moon - painting by Don Dixon
436-Palm-Moon
A full moon rises above palms in my backyard in this digital composite. © 2005 by Don Dixon.
439-Apollo-11-Flag
Apollo 11 astronauts unfurl the U.S. flag on July 20, 1969. Acrylic and gouache study for Hamilton Collection commemorative plate, 1993. © 2005 by Don Dixon.
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Formation of Tycho Crater; an asteroid smashes into the moon, forming a crater ; gouache on illustration board, 1977 by Don Dixon
010-Tycho-By-Earthlight
Earth viewed from the lunar crater Tycho. The Pleiades star cluster is about to be occulted by earth. Oil on canvas panel, 1973. © Don Dixon/cosmographica.com
025-Apollo-17-Carrying-the-Fire
The last expedition to the moon departs on December 7, 1972 in this photograph by Don Dixon from the shore of the Banana river near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The dark shock wave racing across the water heralds the arrival of the thunderous noise of the Saturn V rocket engines. © Don Dixon
Crater Clavius as seen from Six Miles
The great lunar walled plain Clavius as it would look from an altitude of 6 miles, the height of a commercial jet. This is only 10 percent the altitude of the standard Apollo orbit. Traditional oil on masonite; 16"x20" © Don Dixon 2021
Antique Moon
Phases of the moon rendered in the style of an antique book engraving.