Thursday, November 04, 2004
Chapter 4 - Jupiter
Home to over fifty moons, Jupiter was one of the first systems to be fully explored by portal travel. Explorers landed on Ganymede, Io, Europa and all the other moons, searching for signs of life. Sadly, there wasn't any to be found. Humanity was alone in the solar system.
Jupiter, as sizable as it was, didn't take long to be explored fully. Night and day humanity worked to explore the Jovian system looking for clues to life and other things. The mysterious gases that swirled around Jupiter's dense core told no secrets, so scientists would have to develop solutions to extract the answers. While in the early days portal travel was limited to the solar system and a few local stars around it, the Jupiter project was one of the lesser funded projects. People were far more interested in discovering new star systems and the planets that they had revolving around them than the same old stuff revolving around Jupiter which had been known for centuries.
Out of all the old planets, Jupiter held the most secrets however. Even though Saturn was much more beautiful, it was Jupiter which generated more heat than it received from the Sun. Different methods were explored to see if it would be possible to increase Jupiter's mass enough for it to become a star as well. These ulitmately led to failure, but they helped revolutionize terraforming. Using new methods, entire planets could be terraformed for human life in just five Earth years. Almost any planet with a crust and sufficient distance from the star it orbited could be transformed into a beautiful Earth-like planet fit for Earth life.
Jupiter helped the human race evolve beyond its one planet home to countless worlds. Discoveries on Jupiter also lead to the first full terraforming project on the planet closest to Earth... ¶ 3:04 PM
Home to over fifty moons, Jupiter was one of the first systems to be fully explored by portal travel. Explorers landed on Ganymede, Io, Europa and all the other moons, searching for signs of life. Sadly, there wasn't any to be found. Humanity was alone in the solar system.
Jupiter, as sizable as it was, didn't take long to be explored fully. Night and day humanity worked to explore the Jovian system looking for clues to life and other things. The mysterious gases that swirled around Jupiter's dense core told no secrets, so scientists would have to develop solutions to extract the answers. While in the early days portal travel was limited to the solar system and a few local stars around it, the Jupiter project was one of the lesser funded projects. People were far more interested in discovering new star systems and the planets that they had revolving around them than the same old stuff revolving around Jupiter which had been known for centuries.
Out of all the old planets, Jupiter held the most secrets however. Even though Saturn was much more beautiful, it was Jupiter which generated more heat than it received from the Sun. Different methods were explored to see if it would be possible to increase Jupiter's mass enough for it to become a star as well. These ulitmately led to failure, but they helped revolutionize terraforming. Using new methods, entire planets could be terraformed for human life in just five Earth years. Almost any planet with a crust and sufficient distance from the star it orbited could be transformed into a beautiful Earth-like planet fit for Earth life.
Jupiter helped the human race evolve beyond its one planet home to countless worlds. Discoveries on Jupiter also lead to the first full terraforming project on the planet closest to Earth... ¶ 3:04 PM
