Thinking on Juno, Emer was surprised to feel a tear on her cheek—daughter of Saturn, sister/wife of Jupiter, mother of Mars and Vulcan—all forgotten now or morphed so many times into meaninglessness. The forgotten Greek goddess, among the legion of discarded deities of Con’s book, but also of this man-made spacecraft. This spectacular contraption made by human hands was now billions of miles away from the place of its conception. So, so far away. Like the goddess, also abandoned by the humans that worshipped her. And like the goddess, destined to get not much closer than 1.7 billion miles from
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