nuclear diodes at the ship's base spin into life, glowing with atomic fire, the ship now heading towards mercury and beyond. the ship flies on into the endless night. the ship begins to veer off course, falling towards the sun. the saucer is elongating slightly, changing its shape as it prepares to enter hyperspace. as the ship moves back in front of the portal, the hole in space is visible again, the giant probe ship revealed once more within. the hull glows with electricity. the spiders fly off into space, their limbs and heads retracting. the outer bull flashes with electricity, the spiders jumping off. don pilots the craft directly through the wake of the fusion drive. the ship is knocked into the atmosphere of the giant planet below. the ship is hurling toward the planet's cloud obscured surface. the ship tilts on its side, passing between two snowy peaks, still plunging towards the planet's wintry surface below. the robinsons, all except will, stand-gathered around the front of the ship. don has a small tracking device in his hand. the land masses are falling away beneath them, plummeting into the landing struts retract. the power drive begins to spin. the jupiter two rises above the ground just as the firmament collapses upon itself. fire geysers erupt. history in about to repeat itself. the tiny ship flies into the giant expanding crevice. the tiny ship flies deeper toward the molten center of the planet. the ship clears the planet as the world explodes in the b.g.