NOTE- Although Flight of Rings tale is imaginary, the facts about Uranus and its rings are factual and in the story below. Many tracks incorporate the actual solar wind sounds from the rings of Uranus recorded by Voyager 2 in 1977. The listener hears [+]NOTE- Although Flight of Rings tale is imaginary, the facts about Uranus and its rings are factual and in the story below. Many tracks incorporate the actual solar wind sounds from the rings of Uranus recorded by Voyager 2 in 1977. The listener hears these sounds as tinkling bells, bird chirps, gongs, and winds weaving within the music]
VOYAGE TO URANUS
Our trip began during the early Summer of 2006 to visit the rings encircling the planet Uranus. We brought recording equipment along with our cameras in hopes of capturing the sounds of the solar winds weaving through the rings. Since we had only read about these rings and seen photographs of Uranus and them via telescope we had no idea of how special our voyage was to be. We knew our destination (pronounced you`ran us) was 1.8 billion miles from Earth but with our specially designed ship taking advantage of the balloon effect of space we could make the journey to the outer moons in a very short hop, having our children back in time for school.
SIX
We emerged at the first ring, closest to Uranus and discovered, much to our surprise, a huge orbiting rock between Six and Uranus. Because of its size it had not been seen by our Earth telescopes. We called the rock Delia and moved our base of operations there. That done we began our tour of Six, the first ring, 41.8km above the planet. The ring itself was composed of billions of tiny pebbles and not ice crystals as we first thought. The view looking through the pebbles and around the ring to the outer edges was breathtaking. The huge cold planet behind us yielded a close-up view of the covering blue gasses.
FIVE
Continuing outward from the outer edge of the ring was a short trip. The inner group of pebbles was very close to Six and although there was little difference between the two rings thus traveled, looking back at Six we got the impression of being further from Uranus than we really were.
FOUR
Again, this group of slightly larger pebbles lay close to Five’s outer edge but the feeling was different. The slow, undulating movement of pebbles and stones reminded us of ocean waves in slow motion. We wondered if the solar winds in this ring were causing the movement. Looking out through the other rings it was easy to imagine the vastness of an oc
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