Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Chaosmos- Episode 1 (Artemis' Quandary): She

Artemis sighed as she veered Pangaea into Jupiter’s orbit. She was already in Taur’s bad books, so she hadn’t protested.

The Sun was dying; it had already swallowed up Mercury, Venus and her ancestral home Earth. Soon it would wither away into a white dwarf. Scientists were betting that, as the biggest planet, Jupiter would pull the remaining planets into an orbit around itself. But that wasn’t for another billion years dammit! But Taur insisted on sending Artemis to check up on Jupiter every millennium.

She slowed down as she swept by Jupiter’s main moons — Io, Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa. She sighed again. Then she blinked. How had she not noticed earlier? Her burnished golden hair, which almost touched the floor, rustled as she shook her head in disbelief. She switched on the radar, but the beams just bounced away into space. It couldn’t be.

Jupiter had disappeared.


(continued)

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