Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 270
ularities inthe edges of the belts. Zollner makes the mean albedo of the planet 0.52, about thesame as that of Venus. The planets spectrum is substantially like that of Jupiter,but the dark bands are rather more pronounced. These bands,however, do not appear in the spectrum of the ring,… … Fig. 87. — Saturn and his Rings. § 359] THE RINGS. 255 359. The Rings. — The most remarkable peculiarity of theplanet is its ring system. The globe is surrounded by threethin, flat, concentric rings, like circular discs of paper piercedthrough the centre. They are generally referred to as A, B,and…
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