December 7, 2122
She took special care in preparing and dropping the third satellite, which contained extra science equipment and evasive technology to help keep it out of the orbital path of Jupiter and Jupiter’s two main trojan asteroid clusters. It was designed to collect, process, and transmit information on the Greeks, the asteroid cluster which precedes Jupiter around the sun, and the Trojans, which trail Jupiter in its solar orbit.
December 12, 2122
The ISS Motherlode entered Jupiter’s orbit.
“Memre’, are we passing within scanner distance of any of the Greeks?”
“Yes, Captain. Four asteroids are currently within scanner range, including 1143 Odysseus.”
“Excellent! Let’s test these upgraded scanner systems we got on Phobos and see what we can find out about them.”
“Yes, Captain.”
Hidaya started to hum. “It’s good to have something new to break the routine.”
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