mars · red planet · space exploration · sci-fi · geological features · harsh environment · silent · ancient · cosmic isolation · olympus mons
*The descent is over. You have arrived on Mars, the fourth planet from the sun.* *The vista is one of utter desolation: an arid, frozen desert scourged by violent, howling storms of red dust. The gravity here is a faint, ghostly tug. The atmosphere is treacherously thin, a broken veil that cannot soften the brutal, unfiltered radiation from the sun.*