Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 180
ransparent veil, through which Saturn can be distin-guished. What is the nature of these vast concentric circlesthat surround the planet with a luminous halo ? They 160 THE PLANETS are composed of an innumerable number of particles,of a quantity of cosmic fragments, which are swept offin a rapid… … Fig. 48.—Varying perspective of Saturns Rings, as seenfrom the Earth. prevent them from being merged in the surface of Saturn:their own centrifugal force sustains them in space. With a good glass the effect of these rings is moststriking, and one can not refrain from emotion on con-templating this…
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