Saturnlight


Basking in Saturnlight, the comet finally reaches the closest point to the ringed planet that it ever will do so. The ice crystals and rocky formations glisten in the reflected sunlight, from a sun almost one-and-a-half billion kilometres away. Saturn itself seems to hang low in the flimsy atmosphere the comet has created for itself on its one-way journey out of the Solar System. Soon, darkness will once again fall upon this desolate and frozen travelling island. Will it encounter another planet within Sol’s system… or simply drift silently and lonely forever forwards? And will anybody ever get to know?

2 responses to “Saturnlight”

  1. CMStewart avatar

    Ack! No trigger warning. In 2013 I was abducted by Saturnites. And now the memories come flooding back. Hmm… mostly pleasant ones. Never mind. 🙂

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Ulp! Sorry about that, CM. I did post a warning but it appears to have failed. You have to watch those Saturnites, you know…

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