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Winner of Sir Arthur Clarke Award for 'Best Written
Presentation', 2005
Saturn
Lord of the Rings
- Diameter: 74,896 miles/120,533 km
- Distance from Sun:890 million miles/1,432 M km
- Length of Year: 29.4 Earth years
- Rotation: 10 hours 39 minutes
- Gravity (x Earth's): 1.1
- Axial Tilt: 26.7 degrees
- Average Temperature: -218C
| 'Into the Rings'. I was asked to produce illustrations for the book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Discovery was of quite a different design to that in the movie ~ and it went to Saturn, not Jupiter, as shown here. | ) |
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This image of Saturn with a huge space station was created digitally for the novella 'Relic of Chaos' by G. David Nordley on an Analog cover, January 2001. |
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For my own book Atlas of the Solar System (1981) I painted this impression of Voyager 1 as it leaves the Saturn system and heads towards the constellation Ophiuchus. |
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| 'Discovery on Dione'. Painted back in the 1980s, this scene on Saturn's moon was used as a cover for the US magazine Analog in March 2002. | ) |
| 'Artist on Mimas'. This illustrated the story 'Shepherd Moon' by Allen Steele in the June 1994 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The artist is using a digital pad. | ) |
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One of the most dramatic sights in the Solar System must be that of the rings of Saturn, seen from amongst its cloud layers. Here I painted sundogs around the shrunken Sun, caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere. (Courtesy BNSC, 1994) |
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A dirigible, filled with hydrogen, would be a good way to explore below the red clouds of Titan, which has a dense atmosphere. It would be rare to see Saturn at all, but here it is shown through a gap in the clouds. In the left foreground, dark organic material deposited at the top of a mountain is conducting heat and releasing gases. Currently we await the arrival of the Huygens probe to be released by Cassini at Christmas. From Futures |
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