This piece was inspired by the night I rode a camel deep into the Sahara Desert in Morocco with a geophysics research team. We were tracing mass extinction events in the rock record throughout Morocco and took a detour into the Sahara. I grew up in Philadelphia and have really never been able to see the night sky due to intense light pollution. As I drifted off to sleep under the stars, I saw a view that I will never forget - it was as if I was falling into the cosmos above. I often think back on that night, and remember the cool breeze drifting over the desert. With this render, I sought to capture that feeling of observing the endless desert. A lone pool sits in the center of the frame while the Moon slowly drifts above the horizon.