6 a.m.
What was a fall of twelve leagues ? He thought nothing of that . It would , however , have been a useless attempt , for if the projectile was not going to reach any point on the satellite , Michel would have been hurled along by its movement , and not have reached it either . At that moment , 6 a.m. , the lunar pole appeared . Only half the disc , brilliantly lighted , appeared to the travellers , whilst the other half disappeared in the darkness . The projectile suddenly passed the line of demarcation between intense light and absolute darkness , and was suddenly plunged into the profoundest night . At the moment this phenomenon took place the projectile was grazing the moon 's North Pole , at less that twenty-five miles ' distance .