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You live in a time when you can see on your phone high-res photos taken over the weekend by a nuclear-powered rover on Mars.

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This scene is a composite of two NASA Perseverance rover left Mastcam-Z camera photos, taken on 20 February 2026 at a local Jezero crater time of 11:30 am. Colour and white balance changed to better match human vision. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne

Even while the regime now ruling the country that sent this extraordinary mission takes an axe to its own science base, unleashes measles on its own population, and builds concentration camps.

A nuclear powered rover that was lowered to the ground by a sky crane, while the people that built it were watching, 127 million miles away. I love those darn rovers so much.