Mars has long fascinated many of us stuck here on Earth, and Thursday’s safe landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover only stirred up the …
Mars has long fascinated many of us stuck here on Earth, and Thursday’s safe landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover only stirred up the pop culture love for the red planet. The rover has serious work ahead, including searching for signs of life in an ancient lakebed, but Earthlings looked for the lighter side. The rover’s first image of its new home sparked plenty of memes and jokes — and to no one’s surprise, actor Matt Damon, who starred in 2015’s The Martian, was front and center in many of them. Some people edited Damon’s image into the new Mars photo. „This is awesome,“ one tweet read. „Huge congrats to everyone who helped find Matt Damon.
