Across the Sea of Suns by Gregory Benford

Author:Gregory Benford [BENFORD, GREGORY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC028020
ISBN: 9780446506342
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2007-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

God this is really dog work, measuring this and analyzing that, all for the astro types the banded planet coming in from the left Yeah when you think about it what difference does it make, they’re summing the same data base back Earthside vast and yellow Keep totting it up, you never know a sprinkling of light in the plane of rotation Okay okay God Nigel just ’cause you’re team head doesn’t mean you can’t kid around a points of brilliance, some white and others ruddy with the reflected glow of the giant world Yeah I know her the probe swooping in for a boosting rendezvous Works in agro I think, bunks over in P4 on a timed flyby of two moons Not a looker but I hear falling powerless Ol Aarons said, Buck teeth? She could eat an apple through a tennis racket an’ the whole crowd they sipping of the stellar winds and calibrating particle energies, plasma density, UV flux Lavera you’re falling behind now closing on the first moon Funny getting a lot of backscattered light from the rotation plane an ice disk probably it’s pretty cold this far out grids deploying, lenses swinging to face the oncoming pocked and speckled face Hey I’ve resolved that so-called ice disk it’s not grains at all it’s a long string of stuff, pretty evenly spaced like beads on a string, pearls really ‘cause they’re pretty white an’ the radar says they’re smooth, no backscatter in the centimeter wavelengths deep rutted valleys cast long shadows at the blue terminator Lot of little sources in the plane, but only out from this moon, I mean there aren’t any farther in a crust of ice streaked black Probe’s passing close to one of ’em in few minutes no craters First flash looks like some structure kinda oblong must be an asteroid or maybe a broken-up moon tidal forces maybe pulled it apart and left all this crap drifting in toward the primary a gray dot of light like the others swelling I should think not elongated Yeah why? two blobs of lighter gray separate from the central image Why should debris of that type fetch up against this one moon? Seems some would get by it the two dollops now resolving into circles Damn funny formation the angle shifts as the probe moves, coming closer, focusing, and abruptly a brilliant flare burns in the field of view Whazzat so fast so that the probe stops down the input, applying polarizers and filters It’s reflection, reflected light from Wolf 359 until its motion carries it beyond and the light ebbs and it can see better the tiny control cabin at the exact point between the two huge sun sails Must be using them to get some push and behind it the dark mass of clotted ices and the restraining webbing that fixes this cargo in place Launching out from that moon, you think? the sails patiently catching the red photons of the distant

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