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A Trip to Venus

A Trip to Venus

Munro, John

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1544050674
ISBN13: 9781544050676
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2017
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
While I was glancing at the Times newspaper in a morning train for London my eyes fell on the following item: - A STRANGE LIGHT ON MARS.-On Monday afternoon, Dr. Krueger, who is in charge of the central bureau at Kiel, telegraphed to his correspondents: - Projection lumineuse dans région australe du terminateur de Mars observée par Javelle 28 courant, 16 heures.-Perrotin. In plain English, at 4 a.m., a ray of light had been observed on the disc of the planet Mars in or near the terminator; that is to say, the zone of twilight separating day from night. The news was doubly interesting to me, because a singular dream of Sunrise in the Moon had quickened my imagination as to the wonders of the universe beyond our little globe, and because of a never-to-be-forgotten experience of mine with an aged astronomer several years ago. This extraordinary man, living the life of a recluse in his own observatory, which was situated in a lonely part of the country, had, or at any rate, believed that he had, opened up a communication with the inhabitants of Mars, by means of powerful electric lights, flashing in the manner of a signal-lantern or heliograph. I had set him down as a monomaniac; but who knows? perhaps he was not so crazy after all.

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