. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE MOON AT ABOUT FOUR DAYSPAST NEW MOON. drink, and the problem of keeping it from freez-ing, or thawing it out if frozen, will not be aneasy one to solve. There is practically no airon the moon, and you must take along a supplyfor breathing. If you expect to make a fire andcook your dinner, you must take, in additionto fuel, an additional supply ofair to keep your fire going. But suppose that in someway you are landed on themoon with a supply of thingsnecessary for sustaining you are on a part of themoon on which the sun is shin-ing, you will marvel, perhaps,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE MOON AT ABOUT FOUR DAYSPAST NEW MOON. drink, and the problem of keeping it from freez-ing, or thawing it out if frozen, will not be aneasy one to solve. There is practically no airon the moon, and you must take along a supplyfor breathing. If you expect to make a fire andcook your dinner, you must take, in additionto fuel, an additional supply ofair to keep your fire going. But suppose that in someway you are landed on themoon with a supply of thingsnecessary for sustaining you are on a part of themoon on which the sun is shin-ing, you will marvel, perhaps,first of all, at the dazzling bril-liance of the sunlight and theintense blackness of the shad-ows. Everything in the shadewill be in almost total darkness,as there is no air filled with lit-tle dust particles to scatter thesunlight so that it may illumi-nate the places out of the directpath of its rays. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. I I 29. FIRST QUARTER. And what a sense of desolation will presentitself to your view! The Desert of Sahara wouldlook like a luxuriant park in comparison withthe lunar landscape. Not a blade of grass, nota tree, or brook, or lake—nothing but a vaststony, silent desert. There are plains, not quiteas level as our Western prairies, and great num-bers of mountains, most of them much steeperthan those on the earth; they are not groupedin long ranges, as our terrestrial mountainsgenerally are, but are scattered all over the sur-face, singly and in irregular groups. Most ofthem are shaped more or less like our terres-
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