Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers

CHAPTER VIII

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SCENES ON THE PLANETS 139

Jupiter, its belts and its moons--Saturn, the ringed planet--Saturn's moons and Roche's limit--Mars and its white polar caps and so-called seas and continents--Venus and her atmosphere--The peculiar rotations of Venus and Mercury.