The War of the Worlds (radio drama) relatively few listeners. The one-hour program began with the theme music for the "Mercury Theatre on the Air" and an announcement that the evening's show was an adaption of "The War of the Worlds". This was followed by a prologue read by Orson Welles which was closely based on the opening of H.G. Wells' novel. The next half hour of the broadcast was presented as typical evening of radio programming which was interrupted by a series of news bulletins. The first few bulletins interrupt a program of dance music and describe a series of odd explosions observed on Mars. This
H. G. Wells (crater) crater valleys. This rugged surroundings intrudes only part way into the interior, while the remaining floor is relatively level and in some places gently rolling. The interior is marked only by a multitude of tiny craterlets. The writer H. G. Wells earned the right to have a Moon crater named after him by his well-known science fiction, including the novel "The First Men in the Moon". By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells (crater) H. G. Wells