Perhaps you recall The Martian, the story of Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded on Mars trying to survive long enough to be rescued. His journey home involves driving for weeks in a solar-powered rover from his mission location to the launch site for the next mission’s return trip. There’s a part in the book (but not the movie) where a dust storm threatens to slow him down enough to miss his rendezvous. He needs to go around it, but he doesn’t know where it is or where it’s moving. In general, he wants to move towards where the dust is thinner (and thus blocks less electricity-generating sunlight), but the storm is so big that in any local area it’s pretty much equally thick in all directions. He needs a bigger-than-human scale perspective on his environment.
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