Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1904-05-13 | Page 2 | Vegetation on the Moon

vegetation on the moon whether or not there really mally la a vegetation on the moon a surface la is a matter of some dispute pio pi of f 11 pick t ek ting ering believes that there Is bising b his belief upon observations of what he has called variable spots por eions which exhibit a drapl darkening beginning shortly after sunrise to fol lowed by an equally rapid fading toward sunset accompanied by a diminution in size as they darken from the peculiar character of the variation ved prof pickering concludes that organic ufa life resembling vegetation Is the only al nalo tion of the changes which he has haa ob served considering the long lunar da as a 9 minature ml nature year the theory of such life becomes color able the vegetation if there be an shoots up flourishes flouri blies and dies in a lunar day just as it grows and NIt liers on the earth tit in a terrestrial trial year