Rendezvous Halley (1999)
This was an image I did for the July 1999 edition of UK magazine Frontiers,
to illustrate a solar sail. Solar sails are gigantic sheets of highly reflective but
wafer-thin material. They intercept photons — particles of light — from the Sun,
and the pressure from this pushes the craft through space. This picture depicts a
circular-design sail flying past Halley's comet at the next encounter in 2061.
