Viking 1 – Digital Illustration

A very dusty Viking 1

On July 20th, 1976, Viking 1 landed on Mars. The Viking lander sent back remarkable images from the surface of an alien world. I distinctly remember having a book as a kid with C3PO and R2D2 with the Viking lander. And as a kid I would draw spacecraft and robots based on Viking. It’s amazing to think that Viking 1 has been sitting there for 42 years. This image is of the mock-up at the Space Discovery Center. I added one of Viking’s images as the background and painted over the image using Procreate for iPad.