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When Bowman used the highest magnification of Discoverys telescopes he appeared tomonolith5 be hanging above a slightly flattened globe looking down upon a vista of racing clouds that had been smeared into bands by the giant worlds swift rotation. And yet the great world below was not wholly dark. It was a glorious sight a mottled multicolored globe that seemed to fill the sky. Every few minutes the radar transmitter would gather its strength and send out a silent thunderclap of power no echoes of new satellites came pulsing back from the control deck Bowman would listen to this radiation.... ALTOGETHER