Today and tomorrow will feature images I “snagged” off NASA’s YouTube video of the sample return mission. I really like how these images are not the best quality – in fact I did make an effort to further distress them so they look more like some out of focus image you might find on a tabloid.

Seeing this felt so alien to me and in fact we were watching something alien (not of this planet) that was captured and brought back to earth. So it seems fitting that I would want to feature covers of my favorite earth alien – David Bowie.

LIFE ON MARS is one of many Bowie favorites. Here is is covered by award winning jazz and classical pianist Brad Mehldau from his album Your Mother Should Know – a recording of Beatles covers and one by George Harrison. The bowie track closes out the album as a way of making connections between the songwriting of the Beatles and the great songwriters who followed. Enjoy this wonderful solo piano version.