CMDR PAUSANIAS - THE SHIP OF THE MIND EXPEDITION - DAY 87
04 Nov 2020Pausanias
FUZZY PATCH SOLVED AND SULPHUR DIOXIDE GAS VENTSHi Cmdrs,
First off, here’s the image I promised last night, this is the fuzzy patch in the Galaxy Map I’m heading for, just one of hundreds as far as I can see.
Before I left the planet I was on last night I needed some Tungsten, that’s why I went there after all. I dropped the SRV out and within a minute or two I found a Metallic Meteor rock, blew it apart and hey, 3 chunks of Tungsten! Just like that. As I went back to the Asp I also found 1 Sulphur I needed to fill up with too. Result.
I then set off on the remaining 5 jumps to the fuzzy patch. Within a couple of jumps I dropped into this Trinary System and took this image exactly as I found it when I arrived in system.
This next image is of a planet I found which I just thought looked interesting, it was very vividly coloured although mainly brown. Lots of diverse areas and peppered with craters.
As I arrived in the Fuzzy Patch System and scanned it a message shot off to the Codex. A quick look in the Codex and as far as I could see I’d CONFIRMED the existence of a O Class Giant Star. This star looks like a Wolf Rayet but it isn’t. It has the same colouring and the same violet halo that a Wolf Rayet has but it’s not one!
There was absolutely nothing else in the system to look at or scan so I flew around a bit and then plotted a route back to the Carrier which was now 2,820 ltyrs from my pseudo Wolf Rayet which equated to 48 jumps. When I left the Carrier I travelled 4,400 ltyrs to the actual Wolf Rayet, then I’ve travelled north to the false Wolf Rayet, about 3,000 ltyrs, now I have a route back to The Carl Sagan.
I’ve done about 8-9 jumps of that journey and found this planet to explore and stay overnight on. There were 5 Geological Signals on the surface so I went down to one of them that was on the sunny side. This too was a very vibrantly coloured surface.
Turns out this Geological Site is made up of Sulphur Dioxide Gas Vents, mostly inert but quite a few spewing brown/orange sulphur dioxide. It was quite a large field of vents as this image shows, see the size of my SRV which is also in this photo.
This is a close-up of one of the active vents.
I travelled right across the vent field and up a hill on the other side. Turning back I took this image of the Asp, it looked quite tiny from up here.
This final image is taken looking directly down into an active vent, just look at the detail around the vent.
The surface of this planet is extremely detailed and interesting and I have reluctantly returned to the Asp for the night, I may have another look around tomorrow.
Night Cmdrs.
Total Carrier jump distance since 10th August: 35,500 ltyrs - (Personal note: 69 jumps on 2 Nov)
Total Ship jump so far: 59,409
Total planets Level 3 scanned: 20,901
Total exploration data: 545,000,000 credits
Total systems with my name on: 3311
The Cutter is now 26,410 ltyrs away from Sol!
Distance to Beagle Point: 49,523 ltyrs
The adventure continues . . .
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