Abstract
and gaped at the forbidding cliffs of ancient lava. Suddenly there appeared between the gray-black rocks a small beach with brilliant white sand, a sight that caused a stir among the passengers at the deck rails. That's Mars Bay, an nounced a nearby ship's officer, and suddenly I realized: This was the place where a young astronomer made the best 19th-century estimate of the solar system's size!
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