Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 178
nly xV/o ^^ ^^^* own; i. ^., the mate-rials of which it is composed are much less heavy, sothat it weighs only Q2 times more than our Earth. Its 158 THE PLANETS surface is 85 times vaster than that of the Earth, noinsignificant proportion. The dipping of Saturns axis of rotation is much thesame as… … FiG. 47.—Saturn. tates in space, the heat and light which it receives fromthe Sun are 90 times less active than such as reach our-selves; but it apparently possesses an atmosphere ofgreat density, which may be constituted so that the heatis preserved, and the planet maintained in a…
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