In Poul Anderson's Three Worlds To Conquer and "Hunters of the Sky Cave," Jupiter has a solid surface.
In "Hunters...," Flandry, descending, sees:
a glowing, multi-colored planetary surface;
moving dark storms bigger than Terra;
thousand-kilometer-long clouds of ammonia crystals;
the blue and green streaks of free radicals;
lightning in a purple sky;
sodium explosions;
allotropic ice crumbled, then lifted, by methane ocean waves flattened by pressure and gravity;
a vast plain where organisms neither plant nor animal lash at hundred-meter-long flying ribbons;
colored, singing bubbles on a red wind;
an immense, blue, low-built, artificial structure;
flashing white energy;
Ymirites flying, or rather swimming, in the dense atmosphere, some on their own wings, others in gliders.
He also feels and hears titanic winds.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
All this makes me believe I should look up what contemporary scientists believe Jupiter to be like given what we know NOW.
Ad astra! Sean
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