Jupiter
“Today we are going very near to Jupiter and we’ll get
help from the gravity of Jupiter to move faster in order to get to NE (“New
Earth”) as soon as possible.” Paul says during the morning meeting. “That’s…
really… crazy, isn’t… it?” Sunny asks. “Yes,” I answer him, “that’s dangerous!
If our spaceship falls into Jupiter and it isn’t strong enough, our spaceship
will be tear into pieces!”
Sunny and I are looking through the window at Jupiter at
the moment. This huge planet is so magical.
“Hey, come on! It’s going to be Chinese New Year
tomorrow! Let’s send messages to our families. I think they’ll be excited about
that.” I try to say positive enough to break the ice, with a phone in my right
hand. To my surprise, instead of being happier, his mode becomes even worse.
“No… and… never!” he says in a certain way. “Why?” I ask. “You’ll… know… that…,
but… not… now.” he says secretly.
“All the astronauts, go back to your own rooms, and keep
quiet. The spaceship is getting near to Jupiter.” Captain Paul says through the
microphone. We walk in our room together, and lie down.
Jupiter is so big! Though we’re still a bit far away from
it, I’ve already known the power of this huge planet. “Full power!” says the
captain. The sound of the engines becomes louder and louder. Just as we think
that this tiny room is too noisy to stay in, a large sound comes from the back
of the spaceship where is used to place one of the largest engines that is in
the possession of this huge space ship. Then the large sound of the engines
gets smaller and smaller, and the disappeared. The familiar sound of the system
of the spaceship comes into our ears: “1 engine broken. Correction: 5 engines
broken. Correction: 7 engines broken. Correction: 11engines broken…” “That’s…
bad!” Sunny complains. “Which means we’re falling into Jupiter!” I cried. At
almost the same moment, the whole spaceship starts to fall down into Jupiter
and the speed of it is growing quicker and quicker. “Tell all the managers to
fix them at once!” Paul says in a bad temper. unfortunately, almost three
fourths of the engines are totally damaged and none of the managers can fix
them in time. “The… only… way… is… to… keep… those… engines… that… are… not…
damaged… to… keep… the… spaceship… from… falling… too… quickly.” Sunny
suggested.
Paul does what Sunny said. He turned all the engines that
are not damaged but the spaceship is still falling down very quickly. “It’s
lucky that Jupiter isn’t made of solid or liquid. But according to the speed of
our spaceship now, it’s still very dangerous to do so. it’s a competition
between Jupiter and our spaceship.” Paul says.
We’re getting very close to the atmosphere of Jupiter.
Things outside the window becomes slur, and soon, the only color left outside
the window is red.
“The temperature outside is 980 degrees centigrade. and
the highest temperature that our spaceship can bear is 2700 degrees centigrade.
It seems that we can go across the Jupiter, but the storms on the Jupiter may
tear our craft into pieces.” I told Paul my thought. Emmet cried: “Oh! my god!
Hope god will bless us! Or we’ll die…” “He’s always so negative.” I told Sunny.
Ten minutes later, our spaceship starts to shake
fiercely. I guess we’ve already entered the atmosphere of Jupiter. The whole
spaceship is shaking just like a large earthquake that happens on Earth. The
sound going from the rickety spaceship body is becoming larger and larger which
makes many astronauts scared. A large sound suddenly comes from the head of it
and all of us are shocked: Part of the spaceship is broken!
During the next thirty minutes, dozens of strange sounds
which comes from different parts of the spaceship scares us so many times.
Suddenly, another ten minutes later, all the things go back to silence. “Here…
we… are! Welcome… to… Jupiter!” Sunny says in a humorous way. All of us in the
control room smiled at one another. But we still have to go through these sorts
of things again on our way away from Jupiter.
(To be continued.)
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