One day, will there be balloon festivals in Venusian atmosphere? Will daring adventurers go skydiving in Jupiter’s atmosphere? I review All-inclusive tours of Saturn’s rings? I review Daydreaming in the Solar System: Surfing Saturn’s Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration, by John E. Moores and Jesse Rogerson, for the Literary Review of Canada.
Imagining what these worlds might be like is one thing; getting to them is something else altogether. Human explorers have ventured only as far as the moon, which we last visited in 1972. Our robotic spacecraft, however, have sent back data and stunning images from every planet, even landing on a few of them… But we can certainly imagine voyaging to other parts of our solar system, and thanks to science we can anchor those imaginings in the known properties of these beguiling places.
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