These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Monday, February 3, 2014
Off to a Comet
The ESA's Rosetta probe has been wakened and is preparing for an encounter with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?). Here's a view of the probe before launch, when it was undergoing testing on Earth.
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