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Show MOON IS NOT DEAD WORLD Recent Scientific Observations Seem to Prove Astronomers Have Long Held Wrong Idea. Astronomers cling to the old Idea thnt the moon Is a dead world, destitute desti-tute alike of air and water. But recent observations of W. H. Pickering, made at Mandeville, Jamaica, go to show that many changes occur with the alternation alterna-tion of lunar day and night. Great snow fields form In the mountain valleys, val-leys, and then melt away; fog banks are seen and, very rarely, drifting clouds. The loftiest peaks are snowcapped. snow-capped. The moon's" surface is pitted with volcanic craters ; some of these measure 100 miles across. Each crater is surrounded by a mountain ring 1,000 to 20,000 feet in height. According to Pickering, there are few, if any, such large and continuously continuous-ly active volcanic regions upon the surface of the earth. But the activity of the lunar volcanoes is now confined to the quiet emission of steam jets, like those found in Yellowstone National Na-tional park. Certain variable dark areas on the moon may be due to vegetation. |
