ArgosyProject:Terminal Braking

As the sun rises over the rugged lowlands of Mars, fog forms in the valleys and craters. Phobos hurtles through the dawn sky, accompanyed this day by a manned craft, slowing like a meteor in the high, thin Martian air.
This is an older piece, but I still like it a lot, particularly the plasma stream. The model is a slightly modified version of my Mars-to-orbit Ferry.
Thanks to [link] for the Phobos model, and NASA for the MOLA terrain data I used to model the Mars surface.

Modeled and rendered in Lightwave8.5, texturing and post work in PhotoshopCS.

Thanks for taking a look.