Coalville Times | 1904-05-13 | Page 6 | Vegetation on the Moon

Vegetation on tha Moon. Whether or not there renlly Is vegetation on the moon'! surface Is a matter of aome dispute. Prof. Pickering Pick-ering believes that there la, basing hla belief upon observation! of what ha haa called "variable spots" portions por-tions which exhibit a rapid darkonlng, beginning shortly after sunrise, fob lowed by an equally rapid fading toward sunset, accumpnnled by a diminution In size aa they darken. Ifrora tha recullar character of the variation observed. Prof. Pickering concludes that organic life reaembllng 1 vegotatlnn la the only aliuple explanation explana-tion of the change! which ha haa oh-norved. oh-norved. Conalderlng the long lunar a' ai a mlnature terrestrial year, the theory of auch life becomea color, able. The vegetation. If there ba any. ahoota up. nourishes and dies In a lunar day just as It grows and wither! on the earth In a torrosirlal year.