Word: antennae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, what London fog is like, then you have an idea what was there," explained Mikhail Marov, head of the Soviet Mars program.) After sending signals for only 20 seconds, the Russian vehicle apparently tumbled over in the high winds (perhaps as strong as 300 m.p.h.), leaving its antenna pointing in the wrong direction for any further transmissions...
...intelligence experts later reconstructed what had probably happened, the Communists worked furiously to switch their jammed equipment to alternate frequencies and different antenna systems, but with no success. Even so, they knew what the electronic symptoms meant: for the first time in the war, the U.S. was sending its eight-jet B-52s to bomb targets in North Viet Nam's Red River heartland...
...foolproof. Enemy troops often foil the people sniffers by hanging buckets of urine in the trees. Even the "wild weasels," which were designed to counteract Soviet-built SAMs, occasionally run amuck. During the Haiphong raid, an anti-radar missile that was intended to strike a Communist antenna accidentally homed in on the guided missile frigate Warden. The ship was so heavily damaged that it had to be towed to the Philippines for repairs...
...included few crystalline, or heat-formed specimens; that cast doubt on the theory that the Descartes area's Cayley Plains were once the site of volcanic flows. The day's prize find was made by the Houston scientists themselves. With the TV finally on after a second antenna had been aligned with earth, they could direct Duke's attention to a large, football-sized rock that glittered with imbedded black glass fragments. "It's a 'great Scott'-sized rock," said the delighted Duke, recalling the record 22-Ib. specimen picked up by Apollo...
...Cornell Astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, Pioneer's flight into interstellar space is not only a scientific adventure but a rare opportunity. Thus they persuaded NASA to attach a unique plaque to Pioneer's antenna supports. Its purpose: to indicate where the far-ranging robot came from and who its builders were should Pioneer ever be intercepted by extraterrestrial beings...