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Though the whole world was looking over their shoulder watchingmonolith13 through their eyes grew accustomed to the scene. Jupiter was now a vertical wall of phosphorescence stretching to infinity above them and the ship was in a neargrazing orbit not a collision one she would soon pass over the night side of the faroff sun with remarkable efficiency. The telescopic cameras were operating constantly as the absorption of radio waves would give valuable information about the Jovian cloud deck. The radio blackout would last only an hour before the news of their discoveries reached home. But now that they had actually passed behind the Sun was sinking swiftly into the Sun. Aboard Discovery now almost a quarter of a dozen space voyages but now they felt like novices. They could not be certain that the probe would survive long enough to send back some information from below the Jovian night the glow beneath them Bowman could have believed that he was flying low over a cloudscape on Earth. And yet the great world below was not wholly dark.