Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 216
than the horizon-tal one; in fact, Jupiter is flattened at the poles andbulges out at the equator, so that a section through thepoles is an ellipse. Jupiter is turning round rapidly on The Giant Planets. 201 his axis, and this will account for the protuberance. We find that the planet lias assumed… … 65.—The Clouds of Jupiter. to rise or fall. As we make the globe of oil rotate, whichwe can easily do by passing a spindle through it, we seethat it bulges out into the form that Jupiter as well asother planets have taken. On the picture of the planet you will see shaded bands.These are constantly…
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