It’s fascinating to slowly scan along that 360-photo while thinking that absolutely everything in the picture is a result of happenstance.
Not one rock, grain of sand, etc was placed where it is by any form of organism using its brain to decide where to move something or change something.
Nothing even minutely affected by something built a 1000 miles away by a life form.
Absolute randomness.
Absolutely beautiful!
MtnClimber, thank you for your Astronomy Pics every day!
‘Tis an amazing universe. :-)
I was amazed at the quality of the images.
And I like your idea about nothing built there. (Yet!)
I’m not sure I completely agree with the idea of randomness. I guess natural processes are random in the general sense, but cliffs in the background show linear patterns due to wind, also there are patches of different sized materials due to wind, and even the slopes of the volcano cones aren’t random but are based on the physics of the grain-size of the materials and the gravity on Mars.
The only thing odd that I saw was no doubt an artifact of the imaging. A small black object that appears up in the sky!
I wonder what would cause a big rock, just sitting there untouched, what would cause it to just Crack in half?? there are several on the right side of the image...