Dear Curiosity: How NASA's rover makes Mars feel like home
As it rolls across the red planet's rusty surface, Curiosity transforms Mars from an alien world into a familiar landscape.
Dear Curiosity,
Thank you for the photos you sent home the other day. I was wondering how things were going with that dust storm. I’d hoped the visibility was improving where you are, so I was surprised to see the horizon still hazy, and the atmosphere the color of tea with cream. Can you see Mount Sharp? You’ll get there, someday. The skies will clear soon; they always do.
I think of you often. For much of this year, I saw Mars shining red in the window right above my computer. It was nice, like keeping an eye on you. And when I went to Mars earlier this year—actually the Atacama, a desert at the bottom of this world—the landscape
