You voyaged in the trail of pioneers,
To shed new light on Saturn and its rings;
By imaging its many circling spheres,
We glimpsed into the past of Earthly things.
Your Equinox and Solstice both burnt bright,
Revealing lightning in the darkest night;
And through your Grand Finale in the sky,
Your sacrifice means you shall never die.
Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016 (Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute).
I was the poet in residence for the European Geosciences Union 2018 General Assembly, during which time I wrote a number of different poems about the inspirational research that was presented there. This is one of my favourites, a Heroic Rispetto,
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