Extracts from the Logs of:
Désọ́lá ìbẹ̀rẹ̀
Primary Ecologist and "Resonance Keeper"
Aboard the ship Odò (river)
View of Jupiter and Mars
We spent the first 6 months of our journey awake. At a much lower acceleration than we would be continuing at once the journey was fully underway.
An opportunity to get us fully acclimatised to each other, without the same distractions we had on earth. Fully connected to our new home on the Odò.
It didn't take me long to claim the viewing deck as the place, my place, on the ship. Somewhere I could be that reminded me, that although so small in the scheme of it all, I was a part of this wonder and vastness. The other's werent quite so attached but were happy to come up here when I was guiding them.
It was here that we moved through a grounding excercise as we got closer to Mars, and the majesty of Jupiter beyond it.
The First Planet ~ Chromo Luminarism
Whilst imaging from earth of HD199509b has always suggested that is purely one colour, one type of gas, with little distinction.
Sitting within the atmosphere of the planet tells a compeletely different story. It is layered, layered in colours!
As you travel further down towards the core of the planet, you see the true variation in all colours of the gases and their density. The reason we don't get to see this wonder from earth, is laughably simple, optical colour mixing! The colours appear to combine as you get further away, aided by the somewhat opaque gaseous clouds in the thermosphere.
A Memento ~ Crystals in Containment
HD199509b was fascinating.... as I imagine every new planet will be.
We took readings and attempted to identify most of the compounds that made up the different gases, unfortunately we weren't fully successful. However we were able to have the ship produce an approximation of the majority of the compounds in containment, for us to continue our research with further study.
It might be due to the combination of the magnetic fields exerted by the Odo and those in the simulated environment but even the gasses we could replicate exactly reacted differently in containment.
At random intervals the gases partially coalesce into floating crystalline shapes, At some points, they've been observed to combine. At those times they appear to be a representation of some kind of crystalline flora. There is currently no observable indication to why this occurs, which makes it all the more fascinating. Perhaps there is a far deeper understanding we need to have about what life looks like on other planets...