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The red planet as we’ve never seen it before – littered with the detritus of long-forgotten expeditions, evidence of mankind’s once optimistic future reduced to scrap. It is an image inciting both trepidation and fascination in equal measures. This is the highly creative work of Kelly Richardson, our artist this month. Featured here is a still from Mariner 9, a 12 meter-long panoramic digital video installation of Mars perhaps a century or two from now and a battlefield of real and imagined spacecraft in the centre of a dust storm. The work has an extraordinary amount of detail, too much to do justice to on a webpage. This image shows a small detail; it is the NASA space rover Curiosity in an (imagined) semi-defunct state.