CHAPTER IV.
A Glimpse of Jupiter.
HE next world I visited was Jupiter, the greatest orb in the solar system, almost fourteen hundred times as large as our Earth. I found it whirling on its axis so rapidly that it makes an entire revolution in about ten hours of our time.
This voluminous sphere is in great contrast to both the Moon and Mars. Its physical constituency resembles a liquid more than a solid, and it is quite hot but not luminous. It has cooled sufficiently to admit human forms, although certain parts of the giant planet are void of all life, owing to the more intense heat in those sections.
The atmosphere is charged with thick clouds, never at rest and continually forming into immense scrolls close to the surface of the planet.
The human life of Jupiter is found in
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