Abyss Deep (2013)
“A couple of dozen Marines were there as well, uncharacteristically silent. From a scant 2 million kilometers away, the star GJ 1214 spanned eight degrees, sixteen times the width of Sol in Earth’s sky, sullen red, glowering, a good 20 percent of its face blotched and pocked by black starspots. I could see the granulation of the photosphere, the roil and churn of the deep stellar atmosphere, the ghostly reach of prominences along far-flung lines of magnetic force.
And the world . . . was i...t world or titanic comet? As the digital avatar of Dr. James Eric Murdock had showed us in the docuinteractive briefing two weeks before, the planet called Abyssworld had a misty white tail streaming out from its nightside, stretching far out into the darkness away from that cool red ember of a sun. Abyssworld’s dayside showed as a deep violet ocean beneath the hurricane swirl of clouds that covered most of the hemisphere. The nightside was made dimly visible by light reflecting from the cometary tail, and by the pale ring of aurorae around the planet’s north pole.MoreLess
And the world . . . was i...t world or titanic comet? As the digital avatar of Dr. James Eric Murdock had showed us in the docuinteractive briefing two weeks before, the planet called Abyssworld had a misty white tail streaming out from its nightside, stretching far out into the darkness away from that cool red ember of a sun. Abyssworld’s dayside showed as a deep violet ocean beneath the hurricane swirl of clouds that covered most of the hemisphere. The nightside was made dimly visible by light reflecting from the cometary tail, and by the pale ring of aurorae around the planet’s north pole.MoreLess
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