That is the first rock to be picked up, carried for a year, and deposited elsewhere on the same not-Earth planet, by humans via the rover. That rock would never have ended up where it did were it not for chance human intervention.
While fairly pointless, it’s still interesting.
Truly one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.
Rock moving has been a part of our existential comfort/answer/justification for so long that now we are even having a joy out of it when we can do it on another planet.
Go go gadget anthropomorphization
Future Martian geologists. “This rock has no business being here. There must have been a glacier at some point that moved it here.”
“this structure is not a natural formation. someone must have built it, so it must lead somewhere.” vibes
Crazy haired martain: EARTHLINGS
I wonder if there’d be a different prefix for a Martian geologists. I suppose they could be called areologists?
No no no. Unacceptable. I say we send a manned mission up to Mars, and reunite the rover with the pet rock.
This is the most important thing of this or any other generation. This will be the Zoomers moon landing moment. Disney will somehow own the copyright to this moment in 200 years, and make a largely ficticious, but partially inspired animated film based on this mission.
This is the first I’m hearing of this.
