ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE simply means what things look like through the atmosphere (air). Our planet's atmosphere looks light blue-ish during daytime hours... the whole sunlight refracting through water molecules in the atmosphere thing (Why is the sky blue?) See Figure 1 below. However, around the time of sunrise and sunset, our atmosphere will often appear brown-ish or orange-ish as the light from the sun, coming toward us at a much steeper angle, has to travel through a lot more of the atmosphere. See Figure 2 below. Figure 1 Figure 2
IN EITHER CASE, the objects closest to you (toward the bottom of the photos) are the same "stuff" as the objects in the distance (mountains in the first photo, buildings and trees in the second photo). The big thing is that AS YOU LOOK FARTHER AND FARTHER IN THE DISTANCE, THE "STUFF" GETS PALER (LIGHTER) AND TAKES ON THE COLOR OF THE AIR. So... Your Martian landscape project should show Atmospheric Perspective in order to create the illusion of space (near, far, etc.) To summarize, there are three basic ways to make things look far off in the distance: 1. They get smaller. 2. They are generally located higher on the page. 3. They become paler/lighter and take on the color of the atmosphere more and more as they get farther away from the viewer. Check out these other examples of Atmospheric Perspective:
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