I wonder what the old Dean would have given to be here, and see how true his guess was.

Are we going to land on them ?" "I don't see why we shouldn't," he said.

"I think we might find them convenient stopping places; besides, you know this isn't only a pleasure-trip.

We have to add as much as we can to the sum of human knowledge, and so of course we shall have to find out whether the moons of Mars have atmospheres and inhabitants." "What, people living on those wee things!" she laughed.

"Why they're only about thirty or forty miles round, aren't they ?" "About," he said, "but then that's just one of the points I want to solve; and as for life, it doesn't always mean people, you know.