These pictures might inspire someone to volunteer for the Mars trip. At first glance it looks almost desolate, but with a beauty in the expanse and subtle texture/color, all it's own. Then looking closely there's a million details in the flora, mosses, lichen, and tiny plants striving for survival on every surface.
This and a friendly sheep, would be paradise for a writer, at least in the warmer half of the year.
Limey, in addition to all your other talents, you're one hell of a photographer.