Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 353
etails become indistinct, and finally vanish, thus in-dicating a highly absorptive atmosphere like that of the Sun.The light from the centre of the disk is twice as bright asthat from the poles. The bands can be seen with instru- S28 ASTRONOMY. ments no more powerful than those nsed by Galileo,… … Fig. 181 -View of Jupiter and his Satellites in a SmallTelescope. Herschel, iu the year 1793, attributed the aspects ofthe bands to zones of the planets atmosphere more tranquiland less filled with clouds than the remaining portions, soas to permit the true surface of the planet to be seenthrough…
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