Roan Tom has homed on radio signals carrying human voices speaking Anglic words although the signals had broken off several light-years away. He observes a planet from space:
green, blue and brown with an underlying red;
many seas but no ocean;
clouds;
extensive southern polar cap;
north pole almost completely melted in summer;
two small moons;
habitable according to the spectroscope;
the only possible source of the radio signals;
axial tilt 10 degrees;
diameter 6810 kilometers;
mass 0.15 Terran;
should be too small to be habitable.
An sf author invents a mystery and his character solves it.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Roan Tom and his wives got into difficulties at first because they started out with the wrong hypothesis about what kind of planet Nike was.
Ad astra! Sean
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