{"product_id":"2940013773202","title":"In Saturn's Realm","description":"---For their honeymoon Rollo Lenox Smeaton Aubrey, Earl of Redgrave,\u003cbr\u003eand his bride, Lilla Zaidie, leave the earth on a visit to the Moon\u003cbr\u003eand the principal planets, their sole companion being Andrew\u003cbr\u003eMurgatroyd, an old engineer who had superintended the building of the\u003cbr\u003eAstronef, in which the journey is made. By means of the \"R Force,\" or\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Gravitational Force, of the secret of which Lord Redgrave is the\u003cbr\u003esole possessor, they are able to navigate with precision and safety\u003cbr\u003ethe limitless ocean of Space. Their adventures on the Moon, Mars,\u003cbr\u003eVenus, and Jupiter have been described in the first four stories of\u003cbr\u003ethe series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE relative position of the two giants of the Solar System at the\u003cbr\u003emoment when the Astronef left the surface of Ganymede, the third and\u003cbr\u003elargest satellite of Jupiter, was such that she had to make a journey\u003cbr\u003eof rather more than 340,000,000 miles before she passed within the\u003cbr\u003econfines of the Saturnian System.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first her speed, as shown by the observations which Redgrave took\u003cbr\u003eby means of instruments designed for such a voyage by Professor\u003cbr\u003eRennick, was comparatively slow. This was due to the tremendous \"pull\"\u003cbr\u003eor attraction of Jupiter and its four moons on the fabric of the Star\u003cbr\u003eNavigator; but this backward drag rapidly decreased as the pull of\u003cbr\u003eSaturn and his System began to overmaster that of Jupiter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt so happened, too, that Uranus, the next outer planet of the Solar\u003cbr\u003eSystem, revolving round the Sun at the tremendous distance of more\u003cbr\u003ethan 1,700,000,000 miles, was approaching its conjunction with Saturn,\u003cbr\u003eand thus the pull of the two huge orbs and their systems of satellites\u003cbr\u003eacted together on the tiny bulk of the Astronef, producing a constant\u003cbr\u003eacceleration of speed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJupiter and his System dropped behind, sinking, as it seemed to the\u003cbr\u003ewanderers, down into the bottomless gulf of Space, but still forming\u003cbr\u003eby far the most brilliant and splendid object in the skies. The far\u003cbr\u003edistant Sun which, seen from the Saturnian System, has only about a\u003cbr\u003eninetieth of the superficial extent which he presents to the Earth,\u003cbr\u003edwindled away rapidly until it began to look like a huge planet, with\u003cbr\u003ethe Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury as satellites. Beyond the orbit of\u003cbr\u003eSaturn, Uranus, with his eight moons, was shining with the lustre of a\u003cbr\u003estar of the first magnitude, and far above and beyond him again hung\u003cbr\u003ethe pale disc of Neptune, the outer guard of the Solar System,\u003cbr\u003eseparated from the Sun by a gulf of more than 2,750,000,000 miles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen two-thirds of the distance between Jupiter and Saturn had been\u003cbr\u003etraversed, Saturn lay beneath them like a vast globe surrounded by an\u003cbr\u003eenormous circular ocean of many-coloured fire, divided, as it were, by\u003cbr\u003ecircular shores of shade and darkness. On the side opposite to them a\u003cbr\u003egigantic conical shadow extended beyond the confines of the ocean of\u003cbr\u003elight. It was the shadow of half the globe of Saturn cast by the Sun\u003cbr\u003eacross his rings. Three little dark spots were also travelling across\u003cbr\u003ethe surface of the rings. They were the shadows of Mimas, Encealadus,\u003cbr\u003eand Tethys, the three inner satellites. Japetus, the most distant,\u003cbr\u003ewhich revolves at a distance ten times greater than that of the Moon\u003cbr\u003efrom the Earth, was rising to their left above the edge of the rings,\u003cbr\u003ea pale, yellow, little disc shining feebly against the black\u003cbr\u003ebackground of Space. The rest of the eight satellites were hidden\u003cbr\u003ebehind the enormous bulk of the planet, and the infinitely vaster area\u003cbr\u003eof the rings.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070310105328,"sku":"2940013773202","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013773202_p0.jpg?v=1763590071","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013773202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}