Spark and Perl go looking
I jumped and now I am in space.
You will come back down.
Eventually.
It is not even round!
It is a potato!
Small things do not have to be round.
Only big ones get squeezed into balls.
So it is young. It has not been squeezed yet.
Squeezing needs mass. Mass pulls on mass.
…It will never be round, then.
It is not heavy enough to pull itself into a ball.
Never. A potato for ever.
Will it always be here?
No.
It creeps closer to Mars every year, and one day Mars will pull it into pieces and wear them as a ring.
I stood on it and jumped off it.
It is just so small that standing barely counts.
Rock, and hardly any weight.
No — it is lost in the glare of Mars.
This one is for drawing, not for finding.
From nowhere on Earth.
Where the Earth is clear, it climbs high in the sky. The darker it gets, the lower it stays. Where it is black, it never comes up. No shading at all: it does not matter where you live.
Could you stand on a planet or moon?Which one does not belong?