Sector 7

by Robert Emerald Fountain

Silverstream

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Silverstream picked her destination to be Saturn. The swirling and rolling gases on this planet were indicated by a probe she sent down to be at a pressure high enough to crush, melt, or vaporize her ship if she tried to land. Her probe was destroyed since its shields failed after a few hours, but she knew this from the get-go. Similar to what Ocellus had reported about Uranus and Neptune, Saturn's atmosphere was mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. Silverstream saw on her scanner that Saturn had almost 90 moons, and she was astonished by the different colored clouds that appeared as stripes around the planet in various shades of brown, gray, and yellow.

She saw many rings around Saturn that were clearly visible. They were made of ice chunks and rocks that had been smashed by the magnetic field and coated with dust and other substances. Some of these chunks were close to being as big as a house, while some were even bigger and close to being the size of mountains. She noted all of this in her logs before confirming that she had missed nothing. Once she was certain that all of her notes were accurate, she left Saturn and returned to the space station.

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