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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 19/06/2026

I appreciate this honest take. I've spent 25 years looking at pictures of Mars. While they are beautiful and awe-inspiring, part of the takeaway should be that Mars is lifeless and monochrome. You might die of boredom first. There is no planet more beautiful (and alive) than Earth, not even close.

At the time of writing, the total number of Perseverance photos uploaded onto NASA’s website stands at almost one million. I spent a couple of hours going through the gallery, and I hesitate to report that it was hard to feel inspired. Most of the images show empty tracts of sand and rubble beneath a brownish, miasmic sky. Even the Mastcam-Z photos seemed hazy and monochromatic, as if taken through a sepia filter.

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“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex

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The Mars Delusion | NOEMA

Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?

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