It's actually very interesting how much Sci-fi television and film has impacted the average person's mental image of what Mars and other planets look like. Most of the actual images of the surface of Mars that we have are very flat and boring. Many people view this landscape as alien because landscapes like this are often used to portray other planets on television and film, not the other way around. Earth is 1000x more interesting than anything we've ever found in space. Alien landscapes in Sci-fi are often based off of Earth more than they are any other planet. It just reminds you to love a cherish what we have here and not look too much to the stars. Earth is amazing.