Chapter 6, The Greening of Ganymede Summary

Rolf van der Berg, a geologist, discovers a mysterious mountain that suddenly appears on Europa and that is almost as high as Mount Everest. The mountain resembles an iceberg in its jaggedness, and so it cannot be a volcano. The anomaly is named Mount Zeus. Van der Berg naturally wants to find out more about the mountain, but landing on Europa is forbidden. One day though, the clouds that usually shroud Mount Zeus clear for a few hours.

Chapter 6, The Greening of Ganymede Analysis

A mysterious object is introduced in this chapter, the strange mountain structure that appears as if by magic on Europa. Rolf van der Berg has a burning curiosity about the origin of the mountain and the material of which it is made. The origin is not volcanic, so it probably fell...