The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 288
t, it is bright; when east of it, faint.This peculiarity has been accounted for by supposing that thesatellite, like our moon, always presents the same face to theplanet, and that one side of it is white and the other intenselyblack; but it is doubtful whether any known substance is soblack as one… … • Fig. 290. the satellites are shown in Fig. 288, and their orbits inFig. 289. Fig. 290 shows the transit of one of the satellites, andof its shadow, across the disk of the planet. THE RINGS OF SATURN. 2 70. General Appearance of the Rings. —- Saturn is surrounded by a thin fiat ring lying in the…
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