ABSTRACT
Slowly at first, then more rapidly, the temperature rises. Our thermometer creeps up and the rocks begin to glow. The Sun swells alarmingly, and at last after 409 Earth days, over 4400 lcarian days or one lcarian year, we are back at peribe]jon. Once more the rocks are bright red and remain uncomfortably warm even when carried across into the night regions. Icarus is in the grip of its long, torrid "summer". It is time for us to leave ....
