Space — the one between my ears — is the final frontier. Or at least I thought so before I took a voyage in the car ship Zezima. My mission: to see an eminent astronomer and find out why lunar craters, Martian chasms and other galactic bumps in the road are nothing compared to the potholes on my street.
“It’s like driving on the surface of the moon,” I told Fred Walter, a professor of astronomy at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York. “I’m afraid I’ll hit a pothole and go into a black hole.”
“There’s a hole on Mars called Pavonis Mons that’s 35 meters across and 20 meters deep,” said Walter, calculating that the measurements equal 115 feet by 65 feet. “That’ll stall your car.”
