Astronaut points beside a six-wheeled rover in a rocky space valley with craters, mountains, sun, and clouds.

Astronaut Pointing Across a Rocky Rover Valley

A suited astronaut points the way while a six-wheeled rover waits among tire tracks, cratered mountains, scattered rocks, and thin clouds.

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Color the astronaut’s suit bright white with cobalt blue trim, the rover warm golden yellow with charcoal wheels, the rocky ground rusty orange, and the distant mountains dusty purple. Use sharp colored pencils for the rover’s tiny panels, camera mast, wheel treads, and the astronaut’s suit seams, then switch to broader strokes for the open valley floor. Try making the small round sun a glowing lemon-to-orange gradient, as if it is secretly lighting the rover’s next clue.

The story behind this coloring page

Gus Shares the Giggle Signal — Under a pale little sun, Gus tapped three buttons on his rover and whispered, “Find the funniest rock.” The rover rolled over the dusty valley with a brrrp-brrrp-brrrp, sniffing minerals and sending polite beeps back to his helmet. Read the full story →

Under a pale little sun, Gus tapped three buttons on his rover and whispered, “Find the funniest rock.” The rover rolled over the dusty valley with a brrrp-brrrp-brrrp, sniffing minerals and sending polite beeps back to his helmet. Gus had packed six official sample bags and one unofficial whoopee cushion, because science deserved choices.

The rover stopped between two flat stones and wiggled its camera mast. Gus expected a pebble shaped like a nose, or maybe a crater that looked like soup. Instead, the rover pointed its scanner at its own fresh tire track. The zigzag groove sparkled with tiny blue dots, tucked in the pressed dust where nobody ever looked. When Gus leaned close, the dots blinked in rhythm: ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha.

Then the valley answered. The far craters flashed back, the low clouds blushed silver, and every wheel mark behind the rover became a line in a giant joke written across the ground. Gus opened his radio so the orbiting crew could hear the dusty laughter. If you follow the tracks with your eyes, you might catch the same brrrp-brrrp joke starting all over again.