fandomhigh | Physics with trees, Period 1, 3 Dec '08

The interior of the DangerShop was stark and white with an airlock door to the far side. An array of lightweight, plastic, booted and gloved suits and helmets hung to one side. Beside the airlock door, Mohinder stood, tapping his fingers against the helmet at his side.

"Not all planets have geology similar to Earth's," he started, "Many lack the initial conditions to support life, and if we want to look closer, we have to prepare." He quickly described how to put the suits on over regular clothing and fix the helmet.

When everyone was ready, he pulled open the inner door, and led them onto a rusty rocked landscape beneath a blackened sky.

"Mars, fourth planet in this solar system, and probably the closest analogue to Earth," introduced Mohinder. "It has similar elemental composition, and a basalt surface, from old volcanic activity while the lack of atmosphere makes more obvious the crater strikes. Most of the ice," he gestured around them, "isn't water," continuing to talk about the local geology.

"These should show you how to collect surface samples," he said, passing out tools and handouts. "And remember you are in low gravity."

[~~And it's 5-4-3-2-1~~ OCD has landed!]

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Like you're floating.

Karal Austreben

Rikku, who is really sad that she doesn't have room for this icon

Inara Serra

~~Drunk almost counts as floating, right?~~

Like you're listening.

Drills, hammers and various tools for you to survey the planet.

Rikku felt strangely like she did whenever she and the others would go exploring from ruins. Chipping at rocks on a dusty surface wasn't at all like diving deep under the ocean and excavating, but it gave her a strangely nostalgic twing anyway. So she was humming to herself as she worked.

This was something Inara had never expected to experience--all the Core planets had been colonized and terraformed to have full planetary gravity. She bounced around the planet for a while before she settled down to collect her rock samples, finding the gloves of the suit very unwieldy.

Where he's around, during and after class.

*bounces in the low gravity*

Mars is low gravity, thin atmosphere and really, really cold; suitless you're probably dead. DangerShop!Mars is low gravity, normal atmosphere and kinda cool; taking your helmet off won't kill you.

Physics with trees, Period 1, 3 Dec '08

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