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...crater's rim, he exclaimed: "Hey, there is orange soil. It's all over." Chugging toward him, Cernan shouted: "Well, don't move until I see it!" The astronauts' enthusiasm on the moon was shared by scientists watching in Mission Control's "back room." Caltech's Gerald Wasserburg jumped up from his fourth-row seat and practically pressed his nose against the TV screen to see the coloring for himself. NASA'S Egyptian-born geologist Farouk El Baz, who had helped train the astronauts, beamed proudly. Even the space agency's cautious...
...conceived. The son of a mining geologist, he grew up in Silver City, N. Mex., and decided early in life to become a geologist himself. As a youngster he visited mining camps, explored Indian reservations and made rock-hunting forays into the lunar-like deserts of the Southwest. At Caltech he studied under Ian Campbell and other noted earth scientists, including some of the men who will be watching his every move over TV from Mission Control's science support room...
...soil, thousands of photographs and a flood of data that have changed some of man's basic concepts about the moon. But many of the mysteries remain. Indeed, the very act of exploration has created new lunar puzzles. "The moon," says Geophysicist Gerald Wasserburg, whose laboratory at Caltech has dated many of the lunar rocks, "is now giving us answers that we don't even have questions...
...after its 698th pass around the planet, Mariner's mission has finally come to an end. Because the precious supply of attitude-controlling nitrogen gas has been exhausted, the spacecraft can no longer point its antenna toward earth for radio transmissions back to Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a result, Mariner's final 15 pictures remained locked on board. But scientists are hardly disappointed. Exceeding its expected working life of 90 days by eight months, Mariner yielded a total of 7,329 photographs, covering the entire surface of Mars as well as its tiny moonlets, Phobos...
...rush to publish results of experiments-some of them later proved faulty-in scientific journals just to establish priority of discovery. In his unusually candid book The Double Helix, Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling got to it, Watson and one of his co-winners, Francis Crick, deliberately withheld information from Pauling that might have helped their rival in the race for the Nobel...