"Exploring Titan" by Ron Miller (1978). Art Created for Future Magazine.
Ron Miller (born May 8, 1947) is an illustrator and writer who lives and works in South Boston, Virginia. He specializes in astronomical, astronautical and science fiction books.
Miller was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds a BFA from Columbus, Ohio, College of Art and Design. He worked as a commercial artist and designer for six years, before taking a position as art director for the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein Planetarium. He left there in 1977 to become a freelance illustrator and author; to date he has nearly sixty book titles to his credit, and his illustrations have appeared on hundreds of book jackets, book interiors and in magazines such as "National Geographic," "Reader's Digest," "Scientific American," "Smithsonian," "Analog," "Starlog," "Air & Space," "Astronomy," "Sky & Telescope," "Newsweek," "Natural History," "Discover," and others. [Source: Wikipedia]
[Note: Among our solar system's more than 150 known moons, Titan is the only one with a substantial atmosphere. And of all the places in the solar system, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface, though they are made of liquid ethane and methane rather than liquid water.]
"Exploring Titan" by Ron Miller (1978). Art Created for Future Magazine.
Ron Miller (born May 8, 1947) is an illustrator and writer who lives and works in South Boston, Virginia. He specializes in astronomical, astronautical and science fiction books.
Miller was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds a BFA from Columbus, Ohio, College of Art and Design. He worked as a commercial artist and designer for six years, before taking a position as art director for the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein Planetarium. He left there in 1977 to become a freelance illustrator and author; to date he has nearly sixty book titles to his credit, and his illustrations have appeared on hundreds of book jackets, book interiors and in magazines such as "National Geographic," "Reader's Digest," "Scientific American," "Smithsonian," "Analog," "Starlog," "Air & Space," "Astronomy," "Sky & Telescope," "Newsweek," "Natural History," "Discover," and others. [Source: Wikipedia]
[Note: Among our solar system's more than 150 known moons, Titan is the only one with a substantial atmosphere. And of all the places in the solar system, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface, though they are made of liquid ethane and methane rather than liquid water.]