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... disc , which exhibits phases , like the moon , according to its relative positions with regard to the sun and to the earth . Recent observations have revealed enormously lofty mountains upon his surface , eight times as high in ...
... disc , which exhibits phases , like the moon , according to its relative positions with regard to the sun and to the earth . Recent observations have revealed enormously lofty mountains upon his surface , eight times as high in ...
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... disc , in which case they would appear as small black spots . Astrono- mers have occasionally fancied that they detected . planets under the latter circumstances , but they have never felt certain that what they saw were not merely some ...
... disc , in which case they would appear as small black spots . Astrono- mers have occasionally fancied that they detected . planets under the latter circumstances , but they have never felt certain that what they saw were not merely some ...
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... disc of Venus , which renders it very difficult to get a good telescopic view of it , is supposed to be caused by the reflection of the sun's rays off a dense cloudy stratum ; and in fact it seems probable that we never see its surface ...
... disc of Venus , which renders it very difficult to get a good telescopic view of it , is supposed to be caused by the reflection of the sun's rays off a dense cloudy stratum ; and in fact it seems probable that we never see its surface ...
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... disc of the planet and pro- jecting slightly beyond it at either side , but to the inhabitants of Saturn itself their appearance must be inconceiveably grand . To the dwellers on one side of the planet the rings must present the mag ...
... disc of the planet and pro- jecting slightly beyond it at either side , but to the inhabitants of Saturn itself their appearance must be inconceiveably grand . To the dwellers on one side of the planet the rings must present the mag ...
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Robert Kalley Miller. the rings only revealed to him two protuberances beyond the disc of the planet at the opposite ends of a diameter . They appeared to him to be detached bodies , and he was much surprised to find that they did not ...
Robert Kalley Miller. the rings only revealed to him two protuberances beyond the disc of the planet at the opposite ends of a diameter . They appeared to him to be detached bodies , and he was much surprised to find that they did not ...
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