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FIG. 3.—SATURN'S RINGS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR TO AN OBSERVER ON THE PLANET, FIFTY DEGREES FROM THE EQUATOR. Hence we are justified in assuming that Saturn still hot and, to some extent, self-luminous.

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