Yesterday. On Mars. While you slept, argued, scrolled, and chased another day on this pale blue dot… a nuclear powered machine we built with our own hands woke up on a dead world 225 million kilometers away and watched the sun climb over hills that have never known life.

While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.

708 GB image of the Moon 🌑