Seoritsu Short Stack
Digital Painting
"Seoritsu Short Stack" c. 1999 Digital Painting
This is an example of why space art is still important, even in this day of astounding photographs being sent back from robotic spacecraft. Venus has such extreme surface conditions that humans and spacecraft cannot survive there for more than a short period. Through the imagination of a space artist you can gaze at it's bizarre landscape for as long as you like without being boiled, squished or blown away by the high winds.
In this picture, looking west across the Seoritsu Farra are a chain of seven ‘pancake’ shaped volcanic domes on Venus. Their surfaces may have become fractured when molten lava below pushed up against a cooled, hardened crust, cracking the surface, then later subsiding. Beyond the domes, the beginning of the Alpha Regio uplift can be seen and in the distance a cloud from a volcanic eruption rises in the sky.
This is an example of why space art is still important, even in this day of astounding photographs being sent back from robotic spacecraft. Venus has such extreme surface conditions that humans and spacecraft cannot survive there for more than a short period. Through the imagination of a space artist you can gaze at it's bizarre landscape for as long as you like without being boiled, squished or blown away by the high winds.
In this picture, looking west across the Seoritsu Farra are a chain of seven ‘pancake’ shaped volcanic domes on Venus. Their surfaces may have become fractured when molten lava below pushed up against a cooled, hardened crust, cracking the surface, then later subsiding. Beyond the domes, the beginning of the Alpha Regio uplift can be seen and in the distance a cloud from a volcanic eruption rises in the sky.
