Martian Abstraction (Product of the "Two Cultures" brought to us by APOD)

[SorellaLaBefana]

...[darker] Martian terrain beneath evaporating, light, carbon dioxide ice. The most unusual hole is on the upper right, spans about 100 meters, and seems to punch through to a lower level. Why this hole exists and why it is surrounded by a circular crater remains a topic of speculation...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250413.html

Before going down into this potential rabbit hole beneath the Martian surface, take a moment to reflect on Alice's marvelous 1865 trip down her rabbit hole, on Martin Gardner's also marvelous work "The Annotated Alice" and CP Snow's explication of the thesis that the Sciences and the Humanities has split into "two cultures" and that this schism both impoverishes and threatens Enlightenment's civilization

APOD—Astronomy Picture of the Day—often bridges that posited/probable gap with an immediacy which we so sorely need in our current circumstance where "Reason is Treason"