six o'clock in the evening
`` Hurrah ! '' cried the others quite as enthusiastically -LRB- Ardan did not seem a bit desirous to finish his sentence -RRB- . They tossed their maps aside and hastened to the window . It was now exactly six o'clock in the evening . The Sun , completely clear of all contact with the lunar disc , steeped the whole Projectile in his golden rays . The travellers , vertically over the Moon 's south pole , were , as Barbican soon ascertained , about 30 miles distant from it , the exact distance they had been from the north pole -- a proof that the elliptic curve still maintained itself with mathematical rigor . For some time , the travellers ' whole attention was concentrated on the glorious Sun .