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In the low gravity of Jupiter’s largest moon, everything seemed to happen in slow motion. Even the crash of a spaceship. Three traffic controllers stood in Ganymede’s primary spaceport tower, staring intently out the window. “You are cleared for emergency landing,” one of them repeated into his headset. “Do you read me?” Above the icy horizon outside, a ship flashed against the night sky, defying the darkness and coasting toward the landing pad. Closer and closer it came, looking like some immense, crippled whale. Fins and shining silver skin hung from tangled masses of metal and dangling cable.
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Carroll, M. (2015). Crash. In: On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17759-5_6
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