Comments on: Perseverance moves on https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-moves-on/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-moves-on/#comment-1625063 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:12:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118988#comment-1625063

This landscape also has no life.

We can fix that.

]]> By: Dwight R Decker https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-moves-on/#comment-1625062 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:05:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118988#comment-1625062 Scenes of the Martian landscape can seem hauntingly earthlike. It’s why the crackpots who think space is “fake” claim it’s all filmed on Devon Island in Canada, where NASA really does test things since the geology is similar. (I remember one screwball who got the talking point thoroughly confused and claimed the Mars rovers were filmed on Devil’s Island…) Myself, I almost expect to see a troop of Tharks on thoats come over the hill. But it’s that total absence of life that tells the story that this is another planet. No plants anywhere, not the least little cactus. Not even the hardy lichen still hanging on that popular science writers like Willy Ley thought might account for the dark patches on Mars as late as the the ’50s.

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