It was crushing. The kind of loss that feels personal—like the universe is slamming a door in your face just to remind you who’s in charge.| Ozan Varol
Mars is a master of deception. With its red hue, the planet might appear warm, cozy, and welcoming to the unsuspecting observer. But it’s not. Mars is a hostile place--not just because the average temperature is -60 degrees celsius, not just because it’s dry, and not just because it’s home to the type of intense dust storms that left Matt Damon stranded on its surface. Mars is hostile to us because it hosts the biggest graveyard of human spacecraft. When I started working on the operati...| Ozan Varol