Show TIT THE OGDEN ST A ND ARD-E- SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 9 1928 vx ''fa 7 X L— u u X f ' I fi ' X'f X -- ' V'a 4 xxxxi m P aiers - ' - -- 2j T i IX- xx!( tfXX-- I Ik- - ? I'M rVV - ( Recent Invention of One Little Instrument Proves That the Moon fs Without Atmosphere and That the Terrific Heat Would Roast Voo iilV4 - :! - n Wtm ? i p J - — AMINER X 8 ze If Explorers Alive Managed They 1 f' 'ft : i: 'v-a- n? Iff i It Reach to x if J v V V VI it v IIP i? i ?i P I 8 IP i 1 M - I? xi I 1 1 i ! 4 I h ?l 'In T s i 8-- nil!1 J fMM i'J1 S i I? H 5 I I :1 B § The Scene Which I Scientists i ''hW 'i F f7v Explorer from the Earth Reached the Moon While the Man Is Stricken by the Terrific Heat— 250 If S is S S3 Degrees— His h These observations prove be-t- gf yond per adventure of a doubt that no vegetation exists upon the moon and that there is no ' Ril mil jri incr otmnonKoro enVi as we have on earth Thev aso sound the death-kne- ll for tfitfffis the great glaciers and ice mountains ytppfy which were popularly supposed to constitute part of the lunar surface The importance of this additional information will be understood when it is pointed out that a number of reputable savants have confidently announced the Say Would Follow if an M 1 § I ll '4 "tVfI'JU- '1 GITO rxs' Vsf I 9' 1 S jS!i man speedways But —racing along the earth's surface is one thing and flying to the moon is something else again One tiny and delicate instrument recently invented seems to have shattered jthe dream of the moon trip once morel Thi3' Instrument is called e thermocouple You will see a photograph of it on this page By its aid Dr D H Menzel of the Lick ObMt Hamilton California Mill servatory J has been ab!e to prove to his own satisfaction &nd that of many other scientists ? that if a rocket plane ever carried mn tn th moon and landed them alive they would be Duroca to a cnspi xsoi a pleasant thought for to face F IV Iv4 evnThe mast hartJy adventurer is to said be the first in- thermocouple W'C 6trument to enable astronomical observers to measure with aosoiure accuracy the temperature I of the moon "iceir nnmngs are startling 1 ing the lunar "daylight" hours the temperature nf tho mnnn ia hisher than 250 dpcrppc n "Kil E' ing point" During the 'hours of darkness the temperature sinks rapidly to more than 360 degrees below Kerol ' ' U Professor D iL Menzel and the Thermocouple Professor Menzel'd Experiments with This Instrument Have Enabled ilim Accurately to Measure the Temperature of the Moon and Definitely Determine That It Has Neither Atmosphere Nor j iilrf l iff 1 LAf1 1 I CV 1 1 xV' X--i K fri 'xl xj' JI V 'ifcf'AVi' i yX'" V J? - A s - JX W-- : ' t v?- x- riK CXSV XX-- ' - X 8 - Xm-- c 7" A of a: Close-u- p Portion of That! Side of the - presence of vegetation water tee and some atmosphere on and around the moon One internationally famous observei spent a great deal of time studying what appeared to be vegetation and relief maps showing lunar glaciers on the moon have been prepared and exhibited The thermocouple which several scientists including Doctors Coblentz and Lampland collaborated in perfecting is in reality a very sensitive electrical thermometer It is employed in a process which first requires the separation of the rays of radiation and light which come from the moon This separation is accomplished by allowing the rays to fall upon a piece of or a cell filled with water The light rays glass pass through easily but the rays of radiation do not These heat rays then are allowed to fall upon pei-hap- x!f¥ v y Turned Toward the Earth Frorai a Photograph Taken with Telescopic Assistance j iivAV4A ltiCi of the Rocket The Drawing Above The Take-Of- f the Start of a Rocket Plane of a Design Similar to Is Propelled by Rocket Exhausts While It Is In the Conventional Motors When It the thermocouple and their Intensity is measured to a fracWith these tion of a degree exact calculations in hand the scientists are ready to face any protagonist for lunar exploration and convince him that although more extensive observations of themo&n may be undertaken and rockets may be made to hit thei planet so their effect may be noted from earth no man of our time will cover the 240000 miles between earth and moon and live All the experiments in developing "lunar rockets" ire proceeding In steps The rocket car as suggested is the first step taken by several inventors and scientists The rocket plane which has been designed but has not yet been tried is the first step of a second group Herr Valiejr is a leader In this group and he paradvocates investigation of the possiticularly bilities in focket-propelle- d aircraft to fly at altitudes upward of thirty miles and to speed at 1000 miles an hour or more Answering critics he recently said in part: "As the machine ascends the speed Is so regulated by previous calculation that it will be low while the flower dense atmosphere is traversed and will increase as we emerpre from it There is more danger in descending in the rocket plane Unless the plane is retarded in time it will enter the highest and thinnest stratum of air at seven miles a second and burn up r Armedf with the information gained from experiments with the thermcouple scientists have outlined a possible trip to the moon which als less romantic than that imagined though has considerably more foundaerne Jules by f and probability tion in fact At the start of this experimental trip the reader takes his place in a comfortably upholstered leather chair at the forward end of a giant rocket The rocket propelled by synchronized jbursts of vapor from the rear end is accepted as the most efficient means of traversing higher space With a rumble and roar our rocKet is off t?nnppr Fttttr Barrto ttSS i I 1 If ' t Noted German Scientist and Lecturer Who Has Designed a Rocket Plane for Trans-OceanFlight and Who Particularly Advocates the Investigation of Flying at Heights Above Thirty Miles i i xtxk :fxC-:A- :f XX ' ° ic - x A Moon Which Is1 well-know- s5! S r : tX 3"rxJX - Herr Max Valier j 1 xr' jSX -- i jli v vv t 'V5x A III! 4 I iC O J h Rocket TRIP to the moon has been I 8 I i: one of man's oldest dreams 8 a The recent announcement n that Herr Max Valier German inventor had designed a rocket plane for air travel caused a furor of speculation in both Europe and America as to whether the rocket could be "shot" the 240000 miles that separate the earth from its nearest neighbor Many inventors and engineers believed it could be done photographs of "rocket ships" of designs were broadcast !& 1 and varying reputable magazines carried ar- tides and drawings explaining just f'M v 1 ieat could De accomplished I nowThetnerocket-planJ of ProI 1 1 fessor Valier e was design an outreally the of rocket automobile growth i3 a fact Valier F aW 1 I I O Ji- which ti vun uiinuer iiiiu nerr creaieui VNs 1 I 1 a ? Crumples Nearby !8 ll"' ill ' 1111 I h ft I II! riJ ! Reproduced from an English Magazine Shows That Advocated by Herr Max Valier The Plane Rarified Atmosphere of Higher Levels and by Is Flying Near the Earth and we are crashing through the earth's atmosphere at 1000 miles per hour Before us i3 a ten-da- y trip so we may as well make ourselves Thi3 will- consist chiefly of trying comfortable to keep warm for our projectile once away from the earth 'will be passing through regions of intense cold We might look out of a window but that would be useless for all about us is deep darkness On the trip up we will require a good bit of luck if we are to avoid collision with a thousand "knights errant" of the sky These meteors are rushing through space as fast as we are and if we bumped one of them it would be the end of our experiment Good fortune however Is a postulate of our trip and so we draw near the "daylight" side of the moon From the earth we have examined the craters and mountain ranges winch we are now approaching but the we have not been able to appreciate their majesty The side3 of the craters rise sheerly to heights of 17000 feet and more and the peaks tower above anything we have known on earth From the security of our rocket the moon Of appears a huge disk of frozen splendor course In anticipation of our landing we have a parachute arrangement at the back end of our rocket and carefully gauging our distance we pull the cord which releases the billowing folds The parachute fails to work however And for a very good reason It is burned to "a crisp! The interne rays of the sun have raised the temperature fcbout us above 250 degrees Fahrenheit and our silk parachute is of no value However attended by our inevitable good luck we manage to land safely We are all pretty well shaken up and now a new and terrifying problem presents itself We have come to the moon for scientific exploration but we rocket dare not open our oxygen-fille- d In the first place there is no oxygen about us and we must conserve our scanty supply more carefully than sailors trapped in a sunken submarine Then there is the temperature If the walls of our rocket were not insulated and if the rocket itself was not equipped with temperature lowering apparatus we would have been dead long ago If one member of our party dares step outside he will immediately- he reduced to cinders " Suppose however that in the excitement of starting out we have not calculated accurately - and jthat we arrive during a lunar night The: lunar night is about fourteen times longer than' our night on "earth and the temperature is about' fourteen times colder than our coldest weatheri In either event whether we arrive at nights or during the day we face destruction if we' leave our rocket ' And as the machine itself prob--i ably is embedded deep in some moon crater we? cannot start the return trip without leaving thai projectile's protection or receiving aid from II -- outside- " - j Thus our trip to the moon even if we get! there successfully ends in disaster We 'either burn freeze or suffocate and starve And this? is exactly the end) which scientists predict for1 any naray souls who are intrepid enough to at-- j tempt the trip to the moon if they are lucky (or unlucky) enough to get' there! This surprising phenomenon of moon tempera--' j 111 J W l ilVIIV C V 111 tl 1T1 J" 1 L I I t A N water on the moon and of ktmosnhr wl1 round it the moon does not absorb the heat' The sun's rays are reflected from the surface of the moon and do not penetrate into the soil Thus while the daylight hours are intensely 7 lower than 360 degrees below zero In a few ( hours This condition scientists Doint out is ko iV pronounced that could a human being- - walk across the surface of the moon he would find: IrVflf1 freeze by merely stepping into the shadow of f'£ j Modern telescopes have not only- revealed fitifi ft y ai H us nie cumpieie uuwne oi mat Biae oi the moon! wnicn is turnea toward us (nothing is known of ' m ' X i8M9 the other side) but the visible area has been ex plored tnrougn powerful lenses In addition to revealing these PhvsicsJ of the moon scientific investigation has gone ' be a distinct possibility if it were possible for a man successfully to negotiate the perilous' 240000-mil- e trin And l!v in th mnnn Such dreams however must-b- e laid asidej 'K f V g (W J MA7Jr j For there is no compromise with factj and it ni in nrava ovn nrara pnnnnna trips to bur nearest planetary neighbor the re--j cordings of that delicate instrument the thermo- -' m 'fcftj5H y frV' A i couple say it can't be done x 1 ' j jX I h 'I r 7 |