Farther afield a clunky construction more than 11 feet tall by Spencer Finch titled "Lunar" looks as if designed for a Moon landing.
Jain isn't proposing to drill holes in the moon or strip-mine Mons Huygens which, at 18,000 feet, is the tallest peak on the lunar landscape.
There Gonsales encounters the Lunars, a tall Christian people inhabiting what appears to be a utopian paradise.
Lunar mountains, located mostly along the rims of ancient basins, are tall but not steep or sharp-peaked, because all lunar landforms have been eroded by the unending rain of impacts.
A local newspaper called Le Figaro commissioned Cartier to make three of the 5-inch tall, 4.5-inch wide models of NASA's Lunar Excursion Module the landing vehicle from which Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind".
— Frank Pullo remembers many things about the era from 1962 to 1972 when teams of Grumman engineers and technicians in Bethpage on Long Island built all of NASA's lunar modules, including the 23-foot-tall spacecraft that landed on the moon's Sea of Tranquillity 40 years ago today.
He is soon discovered by the inhabitants of the Moon, the Lunars, whom he finds to be tall Christian people enjoying a happy and carefree life in a kind of pastoral paradise.
He is "tall as a lamp-post" and "his pale face, lunar pockmarks denting it, cast light on those who stood below".
The Buddhists — dressed in heavy ocher robes, their heads shaved — also visited the Catholic church in January, and a local priest attended a service at the temple for Lunar New Year, beneath the benevolent gaze of a 10-foot-tall Buddha sculptured in white Burmese jade and detailed in gold leaf and gemstones.
To convey this point, Galileo included four copperplate etchings of the moon, each depicting a lunar phase and measuring roughly five and a half inches wide and six inches tall.
