"Status?" she whispered.
"Course plotted. Homeward bound, Elena." the closest to the sun
: It is the fastest-moving planet, completing one trip around the Sun every 88 Earth days . "Status
Not the polite yellow coin in a blue sky, nor the angry red ball seen through smoke. This was something else. It was a textured landscape of hell. Mountains of plasma rose and collapsed in seconds, geysers of million-degree fire erupting into the black void. The surface was not smooth; it was a roiling, violent ocean of orange and white and terrifying ultraviolet. it was a roiling
When we think of getting close to the sun, we imagine heat, danger, and burning up. It seems like a place no one should want to be.