Chapter 11 – Solar Terminal
There was no window in the cockpit, but there was a monitor on the console, and the ship had a few external cameras. They were at the end of their journey, and Dale watched their final approach on that monitor with a mix of trepidation and awe. Mercury loomed in the distance like a scarred corpse, all pockmarked and mottled gray. The sun was visible, too, though he was a little disappointed. He had expected it to look enormous. It was bigger than it looked from Venus, but not by the huge amount he'd envisioned. It was a little anticlimactic.
And, of course, there was Solar Terminal, orbiting the planet. It wasn't quite as big as Phosphorus, but it was close.
The Prospector's Birkeland engines shut down, and the ship eased towards the space station on maneuver
