The Mars Rover and the Science of Awe
February 21, 2021 at 04:19PM </span><strong><span class="s1">Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. </span></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ide class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> Well hello! I’m so glad you’re here. If you’re having trouble viewing this in email, see the TIME.com version here . —Ralph Waldo Emerson Perseverance, Awe, and Why We Need Wonder Here’s a secret: I am a recovering cynic with recurring pessimistic tendencies. It’s hereditary. On a sunny day, my Irish grandfather would look out the window and say: “We’ll pay for this.” And I won’t even get into the generations of head-spinning drama on the Russian side. Lately, for all the obvious reasons, it’s been way too easy to fall into compulsive fretting. But last Thursday, I turned on the news expecting the usual terribleness, and there was ...