Mars art: “First Americans on Mars,” a 1960s illustration by artist George Bakacs

Here’s a colorful, if slightly cheesy, piece of Mars art: “First Americans on Mars,” an illustration by artist George Bakacs depicting the first United States team on the Red Planet. The illustration appeared in the juvenile science book Rockets to Explore the Unknown (1964), by Don E. Rogers.

[via Matt Novak of the blog Paleo-Future]