By all appearances, it was the last manoeuvre: they had got too deep into the gravitational vortex, and the engines of their fragile spaceship howled desperately one last time. The expedition's photographer nevertheless continued to take his pictures of the planet's south polar region, uploading them simultaneously to a cloud more than four light years away. In more than four Earth years, the users of the cloud there would see what he saw and have the images he photographed. But before that, much earlier, one of his pictures got lost in the cloud of a not so very distant, small, inconspicuous, blue and watery, but still inhabited planet....

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