During the annual Kyotographie International Photography Festival, held in Kyoto earlier this year, visitors were treated to high-res, NASA captured images of the surface Mars. Curated by Xavier Barral, and put to a haunting soundtrack of incessant, untiring wind, edited to a Martian timbre, the images challenge the viewer, as they try to peg it to something within their experience, which, when looking at an alien world, doesn’t yet exist.

Gorgeous photos, and an interesting interview with the curator himself, please check out the video below!