Take a good look at the three photos at right.
As usual, if you click on the small photos, you’ll see a larger version (much larger in this case).
Can you guess what was photographed?
These are but three samples of the thousands of high-quality photographs of the surface of Mars, taken by JPL’s Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). The archive of these photos is just one dozens of such archives on the various NASA-related web sites.
I’ve been on a mailing list for these photos for several years; I always look forward to clicking on a few of the links. It’s a lot like sight-seeing here on Earth — wondrous things are there for you to look at, marvel at, learn about, and enjoy.
In the case of Mars in particular, I’ve learned that it is a far more complex place, geologically speaking, than I would ever have imagined (and these photos show that very nicely). Often I have a great deal of trouble even imagining what process created some of the bizarre things I see — so different than anything I’ve ever seen on Earth (though I’ve seen some weird things here, too!).
