The Grand Staircase

A genius named Eleanor Lutz made a beautiful map of one interesting slice of Mars (based on this USGS map). She says:

Recently I’ve been really into old maps made by medieval explorers. I thought it would be fun to use their historical design style to illustrate our current adventures into unexplored territory. So here’s my hand-drawn topographic map of Mars, complete with official landmark names and rover landing sites.

Not only is it beautiful to look out - it’s fun to explore. I never new that Mars’ small craters are officially named after small earth towns - here, Lutz labels them and (in caps) indicates their home country on earth. The large craters bear the names of famous scientists.

A view of the massive globular cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, near Earths own Milky Way, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster is 160,000 light-years from Earth and as massive as 170,000 Suns. .

You’ve never seen Sasquatch, but you know someone who knows someone.

You stand on an empty street corner. There is no traffic. Rain pours down onto the hood of your jacket, and into your hair. You press the crosswalk button again. And again. And again.

Two towns over is a place with a name unpronounceable to man. You can speak it with ease.

Do not approach the rivers in October. They smell of death. Dying fish lie gasping on the shore. Others decay while they swim. This is as natural as the seasons, you are told.

A man climbs a tree. What does he know that you do not?

You haven’t seen the sun in weeks. Sometimes you forget that it exists.

Every day, when you look out the window, the blackberries are a little closer to your house.