back before the world was run by computers, painters and illustrators were employed to show what things would look like in outer space, under the sea or in prehistoric times. we found this hand-painted example on the European Space Agency’s site, rescued from the archive as they mark the end of the Ulysses mission, which orbited the sun to study its poles and the solar wind. the probe was launched in 1990 – making this probably one of the last such paintings before the world went CGI
_image: ESA
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