We see now what no mortal eye has ever gazed on before.

This Projectile is simply a work room of the great Cambridge Observatory lifted into space.

Let us take observations!" With these words, he set to work with a renewed ardor, in which his companions fully participated.

The consequence was that they soon had several of the outline maps covered with the best sketches they could make of the Moon's various aspects thus presented under such favorable circumstances.

They could now remark not only that they were passing the tenth degree of north latitude, but that the Projectile followed almost directly the twentieth degree of east longitude.
"One thing always puzzled me when examining maps of the Moon," observed Ardan, "and I can't say that I see it yet as clearly as if I had thought over the matter.