You know that
which causes night and day on the earth is the rotation of it on
its axis. Half the time the part we are living on is turned away
from the sun, and the other half of the time turned toward the
sun. Now, the sun is fixed in space. We are also in space, and
we are so comparatively small that there will never be any
shadows to cause night. We are like a small point in space, and
the sun is constantly shining on us. We do not revolve, so there
will no night, only day."
"Are we headed for the sun?" asked Mark
"No, for Mars. But as we will take good care not to head for any
other planet, so as to get it between us and the sun, we shall
never have any darkness,"
"But it doesn't look like sunshine out there," objected Jack,
pointing out of the window.
"No, because we are surrounded by a mass of vapor. I think it
will presently pass and we shall see the sun. The difference in
temperature between the projectile and the surrounding atmosphere
causes us to be enveloped in a sort of cloud. When the outer
shell of the Annihilator is the same temperature as the
atmosphere through which we are flying, we shall emerge into
sunlight.
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