Me too. I mean, look at this. The place looks like a desert on Earth, and yet its millions of miles away in space, on another planet. There's a certain feeling I experience when I look at those photos, like there is a vast, cold void inside of my chest. I felt something similar when I touched a meteorite for the first time. That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years, and now here I am holding it.
That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years
Don't sell yourself short, you yourself were floating around in space for about ten billion years. Or at least, your constituent atoms were. :)
"We, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts & feelings of the cosmos, we’ve begun - at last - to wonder about our origins. Star stuff, contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion, billion, billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps - throughout the cosmos." ~ Carl Sagan
And was eased to a landing by a rocket-powered sky crane. Yeah, it's cool that it rode a rocket, but man has been doing that for some time. But sky cranes? Completely automated? And no crashing?!? Holy crap...
