Martian soup

Once upon a time, free gifts would come in food packages. Like the toys in Cracker Jack® boxes- not those cheesy fake tattoos or stickers, but real things made of metal or sickly colored plastics. Or the collectors cards that would come in cigarette packages- poisonous and educational. This is from a series of astronomy cards that accompanied Leibig's meat extract- I'm guessing this was something similar to bouillion. The connection between the planet Mars and beef stock seems tenous at best, but it's an attractive graphic, nevertheless.