PROMPT #70

Three years ago this week, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars. Curiosity’s goals included investigating Martian geology and searching for forms of microbial life.

PROMPT:

Write a flash piece from the perspective of an alien who is landing a rover here on Earth. What kinds of things would they search for? What kinds of things would they hope to find? How might they describe the geology? The life forms? Remember to defamiliarize the things that you describe so that we are able to see what is common to us in new ways.

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