Short historia om en mån av Mars vars omlopp är bara några meter upp

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Ett rymdskepp anländer till Mars och börjar utforska. Besättningen märker en grunt halvcirkelformig gräv som kör pilen rakt över landskapet och blir en komplett cirkel och tråkig genom någon högre terräng. De fortsätter att följa funktionen tills de stöter på en martisk by som ligger längs grävningen och märker att det finns en stor kalender i mitten av staden. Det visar sig att Mars är 3: e månen och den kretsar så lågt att den träffar ytan. Martians kalender garanterar att alla är medvetna om sitt nästa pass (nu varför de inte bara flyttade byn 100 meter till vänster ...).

    
uppsättning Maury Markowitz 21.10.2016 19:02

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Detta kan vara " The Holes Around Mars " av Jerome Bixby, som tidigare besvarades som en del av denna fråga .

Stödtexten från det svaret:

That night in the ship, while we all sat around, still shaking our heads every once in a while, Allenby talked with Earth. He sat there, wearing the headphones, trying to make himself understood above the god-awful static.

". . . an exceedingly small body," he repeated wearily to his unbelieving audience, "about four inches in diameter. It travels at a mean distance of four feet above the surface of the planet, at a velocity yet to be calculated. Its unique nature results in many hitherto unobserved—I might even say unimagined—phenomena." He stared blankly in front of him for a moment, then delivered the understatement of his life. "The discovery may necessitate a reexamination of many of our basic postulates in the physical sciences."

[. . .]

"Inasmuch as Mars's outermost moon is called Deimos, and the next Phobos," he said, "I think I shall name the third moon of Mars—Bottomos."

fullständig historia kan läsas juridiskt med tillstånd av Project Gutenberg.

    
svaret ges 21.10.2016 19:11
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Även om inte berättelsen du strävar efter finns en liknande uppsättning osannolika omständigheter i Iain M. Banks " Hydrogen Sonata ". En liten måne har avvecklats och fallit i en underyta omlopp (!) Runt en något större planet

So Fzan-Juym had been appropriately refitted, refurbished and improved, towed to Eshri, slung into a low orbit around it and then carefully lowered still further – kilometre by kilometre, metre by metre, eventually millimetre by millimetre, speeding up all the time – until its orbit now lay a kilometre beneath the planet’s surface, darting along one of the widest and deepest canyons of all in a blur of planet-girdling movement, its course held steady by a network of hermetically isolated AIs and multiply redundant thruster systems dedicated to doing nothing else.

Its own engines had done almost all the work at every stage, though various other craft had helped and been there to step in had anything started to go wrong, but a modest degree of seeming helplessness was deemed to be useful in providing a sort of camouflage of its own.

Fzan-Juym, headquarters of the Socialist-Republican People’s Liberation Regiment #14, had been in sub-surface equatorial orbit of Eshri ever since, zipping along like a super-fast bullet in a slab-sided groove open to the pitch-black sky, orbiting the planet in less than an hour and covering over two hundred million kilometres every year – nearly half a trillion altogether by now – while never coming closer than fifteen hundred metres to either the flat canyon floor or its sheer, polished sides.

    
svaret ges 21.10.2016 20:36