This contains the text of the science fiction story “The Cave in Arsia Mons” by Andrew Fraknoi from the anthology “Building Red: Mission Mars”. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE PDF FILE OF THE STORY. At the end there is a brief biography of the author and two explanatory photographs of Mars.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.