Since February 18th, 2021, the United States space program has had a curiosity rover exploring the Red Planet. Besides all sorts of interesting things, its mission is to search for evidence of microbial life, seek soil, gather rocks, and fly over its landing site, the Jezero Crater. All your standard astronaut stuff, right? Nevertheless, we can’t help but feel like the world isn’t as curious about space exploration as it was back in the mid-20th century. Yes, we do have bigger fish to fry right now with the pandemic raging, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore planetary science. Hence,…