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Barbicane had evidently hit upon the only plausible reason of this deviation. However slight it might have been, it had sufficed to modify the course of the projectile. It was a fatality. The bold attempt had miscarried by a fortuitous circumstance; and unless by some exceptional event, they could now never reach the moon’s disc.
Would they pass near enough to be able to solve certain physical and geological questions until then insoluble? This was the question, and the only one, which occupied the minds of these bold travelers. As to the fate in store for themselves, they did not even dream of it.
But what would become of them amid these infinite solitudes, these who would soon want air? A few more days, and they would fall stifled in this wandering projectile. But some days to these intrepid fellows was a century; and they devoted all their time to observe that moon which they no longer hoped to reach.
The distance which had then separated the projectile from the satellite was estimated at about two hundred leagues. Under these conditions, as regards the visibility of the details of the disc, the travelers were farther from the moon than are the inhabitants of earth with their powerful telescopes.
Indeed, we know that the instrument mounted by Lord Rosse at
Parsonstown, which magnifies 6,500 times, brings the moon to within
an apparent distance of sixteen leagues. And more than that, with
the powerful one set up at Long’s Peak, the orb of night,
magnified 48,000 times, is brought to within less than two leagues,
and objects having a diameter of thirty feet are seen very
distinctly. So that, at this distance, the topographical details of
the moon, observed without glasses, could not be determined with
precision. The eye caught the vast outline of those immense
depressions inappropriately called “seas,” but they
could not recognize their nature. The prominence of the mountains
disappeared under the splendid irradiation produced by the
reflection of the solar rays. The eye, dazzled as if it was leaning
over a bath of molten silver, turned from it involuntarily; but the
oblong form of the orb was quite clear. It appeared like a gigantic
egg, with the small end turned toward the earth. Indeed the moon,
liquid and pliable in the first days of its formation, was
originally a perfect sphere; but being soon drawn within the
attraction of the earth, it became elongated under the influence of
gravitation. In becoming a satellite, she lost her native purity of
form; her center of gravity was in advance of the center of her
figure; and from this fact some savants draw the conclusion that
the air and water had taken refuge on the opposite surface of the
moon, which is never seen from the earth. This alteration in the
primitive form of the satellite was only perceptible for a few
moments. The distance of the projectile from the moon diminished
very rapidly (...)
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