Aerial View Of A Volcanic Crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo Credit: Chris John

Elizabeth Gadd, we couldn’t tell the ocean from the sky. 2012

environmental artworks by Nils-Udo

Illustration from РАДИО (Radio) magazine, 1962 issue no 8. The text says something like “space repeaters,” I think in relation to radio relays. The orbiting object resembles Sputnik-3, launched in 1958. The specific radio tower by Moscow on the map is the Shukhov tower.

Jean-Michel Folon  - The Red Sun   (watercolour on cardboard, 1999)

(via Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Man-Made Moons (1960))

The Frewen Cup, an engraved Nautilus shell set in silver gilt mounts, by John Plummer, England, c. 1650