<story><title>Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577579652958963584.html?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eta_carinae</author><text>I&apos;m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>10098</author><text>Me too. I mean, look at this. The place looks like a desert on Earth, and yet its millions of miles away in space, on another planet. There&apos;s a certain feeling I experience when I look at those photos, like there is a vast, cold void inside of my chest. I felt something similar when I touched a meteorite for the first time. That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years, and now here I am holding it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577579652958963584.html?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eta_carinae</author><text>I&apos;m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>Don&apos;t forget the part where it rode on top of a giant rocket to escape a unfathomably deep gravity well.</text></comment>