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Published: 2015-07-19 14:42:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 4106; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 113
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After it’s three million year journey to the galactic core, the ramship Don Juan returns to the solar system to find the Earth mysteriously in orbit around Jupiter,

(At this point the Don Juan should have lost four of it’s package probes, but I figure Peersa is making a fast flypast of the Jupiter system before committing to entering orbit. I know Jupiter should be MUCH more distant - artistic licence.)

Earth is a NASA photo. The excellent planetary texture maps are by Björn Jónsson - I tweaked the Jupiter map to make it more orange, just to tie in with the orange on the starship. I hope Björn won’t mind.

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Comments: 7

Nel-C [2015-09-27 01:57:42 +0000 UTC]

It's just occurred to me that, since the Sun is a red giant at the time of this picture, the light in this should be redder. 

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Paul-Lloyd In reply to Nel-C [2015-09-27 07:52:57 +0000 UTC]

Dammit!

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Nel-C In reply to Paul-Lloyd [2015-10-08 11:18:31 +0000 UTC]

Just nit-picking. Someone viewing the scene would probably mentally adjust to the light, and a camera might well auto-adjust. And I'm not sure that Niven ever refers to the light in the novel. I really like the picture!

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johnpowell6 [2015-08-19 23:02:24 +0000 UTC]

Nice! This was a favorite novel of mine as a kid. 

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Vumpalouska [2015-08-10 17:07:25 +0000 UTC]

I still find it hard to believe that a bunch of children could dominate adults...

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CyberDyneT800 [2015-07-22 01:12:59 +0000 UTC]

Really fantastic work! Love it!

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gmd3d [2015-07-19 22:24:47 +0000 UTC]

Nice work, I like the design

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