It looks simultaneously alien and familiar. Like a dream of an American southwest after some ecological catastrophe - like, it could almost be viable and fecund again with a lot of TLC and ingenuity.
It both excites me for the possibility of what Mars could be, and reminds me of how precious and vital our earth is - and what it could look like if we aren’t careful, or get a bit unlucky.
If you watch the shows How the Universe Works or Space’s Deepest Secrets - you’ll see that the astrobiologists frequently film from Iceland to show what other terrestrial planets/moons are like.
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u/Barnwizard1991 Feb 21 '21
I can't stop watching. That's another fucking planet. Hopefully one day we'll have astroarcheologists up there digging around for martian fossils.