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...Stompers and Planet Street--Jonathan Swift...
...entire novel is written in this language--mystifying but intelligible--and soon we learn why: the story takes place thousands of years in the future. The planet has been transformed, legend has it by a "flash of lite bigger nor the woal worl and it ternt the nite to day." The legend takes on an unsettling reality when we read that the "flash" was brought on by one "Littl Shynin Man the Addom...
Aluminous pink sunset on the planet Mars. The unexpected eruption of volcanoes on the tiny Jovian moon lo. Swirling storms on Jupiter. A continent-size landmass hidden under the thick, sulfurous clouds of Venus. The astonishingly beautiful and complex rings of Saturn...
These are only some of the spellbinding vistas opened up by the U.S. program of planetary exploration. In the past two decades, technologically gifted robots, acting as electronic eyes and ears, have flown by and inspected every planet known to the ancients, from sunbaked Mercury, the innermost planet, to distant Jupiter and Saturn...
More drastic still is the imminent dismantling of Project Galileo, a $500 million enterprise that would place an unmanned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and drop a probe directly into the giant planet's atmosphere. More than $200 million has already been spent, including several million dollars by the West Germans...