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FINDING NATURE’S TREASURES 
and play that you see pictures in them. But, if you look 
at the moon through a large telescope it looks much big¬ 
ger and seems to be much closer. Men have looked at the 
moon through telescopes for many years and they have 
learned that the dark places are either shadows made by 
high mountains or mountains of dark rocks and metals. 
The light spots are vast plains of light-colored rocks.” 
