Tag: Mars

Weird Science, stories, and cartoons concerning Mars, Martians and our attempts to communicate with the red planet

Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921

On: By: Romeyn

(Note: Truck Farm – A small farm producing vegetables for commercial sale, usually to local markets.)

WE have all seen the Man In In the Moon. So we know there is a man. But is he alive? And is he a truck gardener? That’s some thing different again.

Well, Prof. William II. Pickering of Harvard says there is vegetable life on the moon. He doesn’t say there are cultivated crops, but he insists on the lunar vegetation. And he takes particular pains not to say that there is intelligent animal life on the moon. One thing is sure Professor Pickering is one of the greatest living astronomers and has been studying the moon pretty steadily for two years. Continue reading “Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921” →

An Ideal Landscape

On: By: Romeyn

An Ideal Landscape on Mars According to Prof. Lowell. (1855-1916)

In this picture an attempt is made to visualize Professor Lowell’s ideas as to the condition of the planet. The general desert character of the surface is shown, with the dust storms that frequently arise. The canals are filled by the melting of the now at the poles, which is followed by the growth of vegetation in their vicinity. The canals are here shown filled, with the vegetation in vigorous growth.

Painted by H. Seppings Wright (1850-1937)