Here's perhaps my favorite photo of my series of a camel, alone in a sea of sand. If you saw the first in the series and the second I posted yesterday...
Here's another photo of a camel in the dunes. This camel has decided not to attempt to climb the slip face of the line of dunes in front of him and has decided to explore on my direction to see if there's an easier crossing.
I was in the dunes one afternoon, about to head back to camp when along came a camel into my field of view.
Which Way now? Forward is not an option. I've a vague thought in the back of my mind that I hiked up this escarpment one time, but its not firm enough of a memory for me really to believe it.
So here I am, standing on the edge of this escarpment in western Libya, miles from anywhere. Up ahead is the surveyor's offsider, standing by a ranging pole.
Not really life on Mars but if you wanted to fake a Mars landing you could do worse than this part of western Libya. Taken in 1990 it's almost a reverse view of this shot - in that it's the same escarpment, but looking down.