Rcollier meinte am / wrote on 27.01.97
im Verteiler / in the mailing list /sf-lit
zum Thema / re "Chesley Bonestall":
RC> just a wee thing. I recall being puzzled years later when I
RC> watched the film again by one of the details CB rendered into
RC> his otherwise marvellous moonscape: the ground was cracked
RC> like the dried mud in a river delta. But they must have know
RC> even in 1950 that there wasn't , nor ever had been, any liquid
RC> water on the moon.
But this has nothing to do with surface water, and was quite consistent with
selenologist ideas/knowledge at the time:
It represents country rock (probably lava) that has cracked like that due to
expansion and contraction caused by the severe temperature changes between
night and day - and has not been eroded by water, etc.
--
Tim Slater, B.A. (Nat. Sci.), MITI
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