Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths

Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths — page 3
orange pink and magenta swirls overhead while below waves of clouds form a blanket so thick and wide that it looks like an ocean The weather on the shore is hot and humid But here at almost fourteen thousand feet above sea level temperatures rapidly drop below 20 degrees Fahrenheit even in the summer No trees or plantS grow on the rounded hills Coffee colored lava and gray cinder cover the mountaintop and crunch underfoot as workers arrive Except for the occasional howl of the wind all is silent