Chapter 16.4
An hour and forty minutes later, after first eating, donning pressure suits and traversing the treacherous descent, Tom and Sally finally attained the crater floor, near the now deceased and mangled rover. They took the next half hour rolling out the sounding gear and testing the apparatus, which appeared to be in good working order. To achieve feedback for the …
Chapter 16.3
Later that morning, Tom was assisting Sally with the geological evaluation of the highly atypical stones. Brandon’s original assessment had been right on the money. These were indeed, a variety of diamond, but with an intriguing characteristic of colored micro-crystal inclusions embedded within the crystalline lattice. Sally deliberated and drew deeply from her education and lifelong curiosity about the natural …