This picture is making me feel weird. It’s just… A picture of dirt. I never thought about how [nearly] every real landscape picture is on Earth because that’s the default. Yes, obviously I know we had rover pictures of landscapes on Mars and Venus (and mercury?) but all the ones I remember were fisheye stitched panoramas that have a sciencey look to them. This one though? If I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s just a lost toy drone on a rocky beach overflow taken by a handheld dslr. I can identify some regions of Earth by features in the landscape but I never thought about having to discern between planets. Weird. I guess we have similar photos from the moon but that’s just the moon, it’s obvious, it’s a fully-lit white dust pile with a black sky, a combo we can’t get on earth on that scale.

Thanks for coming to my existential ramble. I’ll stop here before I start thinking outside the solar system

Small pic but makes it pretty easy to imagine the rotor clipping the top of the dune while landing.