Colonization of the outer Solar System Colonization of the outer Solar System Many parts of the outer Solar System have been considered for possible future colonization. Most of the larger moons of the outer planets contain water ice, liquid water, and organic compounds that might be useful for sustaining human life. Colonies in the outer Solar System could also serve as centers for long-term investigation of the planet and the other moons. In particular, robotic devices could be controlled by humans without the very long time delays incurred in communicating with Earth. There have also been proposals to place robotic aerostats in the upper atmospheres of
Egdon Heath (Holst) Holst considered the work his most perfectly realised composition, an opinion shared by Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. But it has never had the profile of works such as "The Planets" and "St Paul's Suite". In 1934 Edwin Evans speculated on why the public had not yet shared the composer's assessment: Egdon Heath (Holst) Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172, subtitled "A Homage to Thomas Hardy", is a tone poem by Gustav Holst, written in 1927. Holst considered it his most perfectly realised composition. Egdon Heath is a fictional place in the equally fictional region of Wessex in the south-west