| Take,
for example, that our ancestors, for more than a few
centuries, insisted that our Earth was the center of the
solar-system (Pale 17); they
simply viewed the sun encircling the world by rising and
setting. Things aren't always what they seem to be, and in astronomy this is very evident. In August and September of 1977, the Voyager
1 and Voyager 2 probes were launched by
N.A.S.A to explore our solar-system, and in further proof
of the Earth's orbit, "Scanned the solar-system from
beyond the outter-most planet," and saw, "the
Sun in the middle and the planets in concentric orbits
about it" (Pale 22). Since
then, science and astronomy have lead to further
revelations by probing the rings of Saturn, the Martian
landscape, and more recently, Jupiter's atmosphere.
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