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An introduction to astronomy (1916)

Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 343

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of the interior gaseswhich may be composedof light elements, orwhich may have hightemperatures. It hassometimes been supposed that the surface of Jupiter is veryhot and that it is self-luminous, but such cannot be the case,for the shadows cast on the planet by the satellites areperfectly black, and… … Fig. 114. — Drawings of Jupiter show-ing variations in widths of dark belts(Hough). - -^;;:s»s;;«(iHE3i.*(;Ji> CH. IX, 181] THE PLANETS 297 evolution, rather than far advanced like the terrestrialplanets, that it contains enormous volumes of gases whichare in rapid circulation both along and…

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