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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Looks like a piece of the carbon fibre rotor to me
i, well , i was trying to exert some emotional experience.
these are machines, nonetheless they are an expression of human existence; they are human, in such a remarkable scenario. they cannot come back; home is lost forever to them, for the very same transience experienced by humans. this page explains it all, btw.