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A. A. Strange Butson. a good deal , for though I have a covering of atmosphere all round me , you would find it con- siderably hotter , indeed , about seven times as hot as on your Earth , and you could hardly bear that , I think . What ...
A. A. Strange Butson. a good deal , for though I have a covering of atmosphere all round me , you would find it con- siderably hotter , indeed , about seven times as hot as on your Earth , and you could hardly bear that , I think . What ...
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... five minutes , but my year is only two hundred and twenty - five days long . My covering of atmosphere gives me a dawn and twilight not unlike yours , probably modifying the great heat I should otherwise feel from the Sun. VENUS . 27.
... five minutes , but my year is only two hundred and twenty - five days long . My covering of atmosphere gives me a dawn and twilight not unlike yours , probably modifying the great heat I should otherwise feel from the Sun. VENUS . 27.
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... atmosphere . I look at her very often , almost more than I do at your Terra , because I am so sorry for her . Beyond her movement and use as a reflector of the Sun's light to you , she is useless , and dead ; but this she certainly does ...
... atmosphere . I look at her very often , almost more than I do at your Terra , because I am so sorry for her . Beyond her movement and use as a reflector of the Sun's light to you , she is useless , and dead ; but this she certainly does ...
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... atmosphere . You perhaps did not know that the fairies who are now on your Earth lived in the Moon originally " . " No , I didn't , " I interrupted . " Yes , they did ; and when they began to find the atmosphere slowly decreasing ...
... atmosphere . You perhaps did not know that the fairies who are now on your Earth lived in the Moon originally " . " No , I didn't , " I interrupted . " Yes , they did ; and when they began to find the atmosphere slowly decreasing ...
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... atmosphere and ground with the flashing of countless fire - flies and glow- worms . After looking round , my eye was arrested by a large red star , burning like a little rosy jewel of flame in the heavens . To this I pointed my ...
... atmosphere and ground with the flashing of countless fire - flies and glow- worms . After looking round , my eye was arrested by a large red star , burning like a little rosy jewel of flame in the heavens . To this I pointed my ...
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