There may be life of a sort on the moon, after all, despite its admitted lack of atmosphere. Fifty-five plats or fields of something which can best be described as "vegetation" have been observed and mapped on the southern wall of the great moon crater Eratosthenes, by Dr. William H. Pickering, the Harvard astronomer, at the Mandeville (Jamaica) Observatory.
Dr. Pickering concentrated on an area of 1,073 square miles (one third the size of Yellowstone Park), and photographed and sketched it continuously while that part of the moon was visible. The "vegetation" resembles...
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