Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 228
e ; in fact, Jupiter is flattened at the Polesand bulges out at the equator, so that a section throughthe Poles is an ellipse. Jupiter is turning round rapidlyon his axis, and this will account for the protuberance. JUPITERS CLOUDS. 215 We find that the planet has assumed almost the sameform as if… … Fig. 67. —The Clouds of Jupiter. the globe of oil rotate, which we can easily do by pass-ing a spindle through it, we see that it bulges out in theform that Jupiter as well as other planets have taken. On the picture of the planets you will see shadedbands. These are constantly changing their…
Astronomy
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