Tag Archives: Curiosity
Sol 1552
Sol 701
Sol 1432
Three years
Last light
Mars selfie
spacecraft and rovers

Spacecraft and rovers from Earth to upper right: Hubble Space Telescope (image credit: NASA), lunar rover Yutu (image credit: China space), Mars rover Curiosity (image credit: NASA/JPL), Cassini (image credit: NASA/JPL), Rosetta (image credit: ESA, image by AOES Medialab), New Horizons (image credit: NASA), Voyager (image credit: NASA), and Pioneer (image credit: NASA).
Cabinet of Curiosities

Cabinet of curiosities created from Mars Curiosity Rover images. Rover image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What curiosity can we house
within four walls
now that we’ve touched down
in the next backyard?
What prize will stay put
in partitioned space
and homestead there
and never dream
of the next room
content to be contained
and not instinctively
roam?
Curiosity

According to NASA MSL, “this view results from the first observation of a target selected autonomously by a spacecraft on Mars” (i.e., NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
I sit in the sandbox
with the Matchbox car city
run by ants,
my fingers tracing a rille
void of lava or water or ice
through the main parking lot.
Though you may not see it,
this touch
means loss of separation
with the finite.
You can try
to stop me,
but I am already
ignoring
the obvious
limitations
including stones
and air
have connected
with everything
have become
a sinuous river
meandering through
valleys and lechs
past my allotted time.