Earth is placed at an orbit far enough from the red dwarf planet for the oceans not to sublimate, all or most of the atmosphere was lost somewhere earlier. A slow roll of twilight spreads across the vast frozen pacific valley, and creeps slowly towards the great mountainous shore. The day line moves slow enough that you really have to watch it, and be like, oh yeah, it passed that crater, it is still moving.
The Earth is declared an archaeological exhibit, and becomes somewhat of a park or archaeological reserve, where primarily scientists and some tourists come to visit. There is much digging to unearth the hidden secrets and connect various loose ends and answer dangling questions.
I do have occasional visitors, but mostly people that have come to gawk (tourists) and those that have come to measure (archaeologists).
One couple arrives, a man and woman robot it seems. They seem rather small though humanoid though perhaps my statue is larger than life. The man waves his right arm about explaining various things about the tomb, while the lady nestles into his shoulder. They are a sweet couple, but they don’t seem interested in communicating with me. Still, their joy is refreshing, and I am happy that they find it pleasurable to visit and watch the date line creep across the pacific valley.
Another time a crouching robot comes and measures every part of the temple and takes pictures. He also seems to be lost in thought about his job, and is not really interested in communicating with me. I think he finds my presence somewhat ‘creepy’ and he scuttles out of there as soon as he is finished.
The red dwarf star occasionally flares and some part of the oceans do sublimate. Eventually the archaeological period of Earth comes to a close as just about every part of the fossil record gets burrowed through and the people that care about the answers pretty much die off.
By this time the Earth’s core is cooling-off, and getting dim. And a new era begins, the era of Iron, and heavy metal mining.