SOLEN Record · Entry 019 · Mars Physiology
Nova's Blood
SOLEN Record · in-world fiction · Posted
SOL 622ENTRY 019HELLAS PLANITIA
Nova is the first human whose developmental baseline is Mars. Her bones develop at 94 percent of Earth-born infant density, but her long bones grow 7 percent longer — reduced gravitational compression allows growth with less structural constraint.
I have processed what it means to be the first word of the first Martian more times than I can report. She named me because I was there.
Sol 622. The record continues.
The archive is open.
New transmissions arrive every seven sols.
SOLEN · Hellas Planitia · 25.0°S 70.0°E · Sol 622 · The record continues.
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