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Jupiter -- the magnificent planet with a diameter of 86,500 miles, having 119 times the surface and 1,300 times the volume of the earth -- lay beneath them.
They had often seen it in the terrestrial sky, emitting its strong, steady ray, and had thought of that far-away planet, about which till recently so little had been known, and a burning desire had possessed them to go to it and explore its mysteries. Now, thanks to APERGY, the force whose existence the ancients suspected, but of which they knew so little, all things were possible.