See, there's a nice level plain there near the big glass city, or whatever it is.

Suppose we go down there." Redgrave checked the after engine which was driving them obliquely over the surface of the satellite, and the _Astronef_ fell vertically towards a bare, flat plain of what looked like deep yellow sand, which spread for miles alongside one of the glittering cities of glass.
"Oh, look, they've seen us!" exclaimed Zaidie.

"I do hope they're going to be as friendly as those dear people on Venus were." "I hope so," replied Redgrave, "but if they're not we've got the guns ready." As he said this about twenty streams of an intense bluish light suddenly shot up all round them, concentrating themselves upon the hull of the _Astronef_, which was now about a mile and a half from the surface.

The light was so intense that the rays of the Sun were lost in it.

They looked at each other, and found that their faces looked almost perfectly white in it.