However, it's no good getting homesick in the middle of a journey when you're outward bound.
And now what is the programme as regards His Majesty King Jove?
We shall visit the satellites of course ?" "Certainly," replied Redgrave; "in fact, I shouldn't be surprised if our visit was confined to them." "What! do you mean to say we shan't land on Jupiter after coming nearly six hundred million miles to see him?
That would be disappointing.

But why not?
don't you think he's ready to be visited yet ?" "I can't say that, but you must remember that no one has the remotest notion of what there is behind the clouds or whatever they are which form those bands.

All we really know about Jupiter is that he is of enormous size, for instance, he's over twelve hundred times bigger than the Earth and that his density isn't much greater than that of water--and my humble opinion is that if we're able to go through the clouds without getting the _Astronef_ red-hot we shall find that Jupiter is in the same state as the Earth was a good many million years ago." "I see," said Zaidie, "you mean just a mass of blazing, boiling rock and metal which will make islands and continents some day; and that what we call the cloud-bands are the vapours which will one day make its seas.
Well, if we can get through these clouds we ought to see something worth seeing.

Just fancy a whole world as big as that all ablaze like molten iron! Do you think we shall be able to see it, Lenox ?" "I'm not so sure about that, little woman.

We shall have to go to work rather cautiously.