Jupiter's Fairy
Dear Iris, You made the news again. I saw the story while I was sitting in the laundromat last week. Mom asked me to help out more, so I've been washing our clothes there to get out of the house. It's the same one she used to take you, me, and Leo to, on the edge of town, where we'd dash around the pine trees in the field behind the building and beg her for spare quarters to buy caramel popcorn from the vending machine. Looking back, it's a wonder we didn't have more cavities as kids. According to the story, NASA launched some sort of probe they call Juno, which basically looks like a cyberpunk windmill, to go scout out the north and south poles of Jupiter. They want to skim the surface, learn how the planet was shaped and how its magnetic fields have flipped this way and that over time, and how its eternal storms keep raging. But what they didn't expect were the sprites. The scientist on the news program said that they detected flashes of light that phosp...
