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Destination: Jupiter
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Destination: Jupiter by Andrew Liptak
One of the earliest works that featured the planet came in 1752 when French satirist Voltaire published Micromégas, a novella about an alien from Sirius who’s banished from his home and decides to visit our solar system, first arriving at Saturn and befriending its inhabitants, before moving on to Jupiter and its moons, Mars, and Earth. In 1964, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory named Gary Flandro was tasked with studying how the space agency could potentially send probes to the solar system’s outer reaches. Similarly, authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing as James S.A. Corey, utilized Jupiter and its various moons throughout their Expanse series, describing colonies and settlements that were populated by the outermost inhabitants of the solar system where they could take advantage of the gravity and surface area to grow crops and safely raise their children in domed or subterranean cities.
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