Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of these instruments is the feature identification and location experiment (FILE), which examines the brightness of such features as vegetation, water, desert areas, snow, or cloud cover, using light sensors and television cameras. By classifying each feature in terms of its brightness reading, scientists can use FILE information to select which objects they want to focus on. Essentially, FILE acts as a data censor, and is one solution to the problem of land observation satellites continuing to collect unnecessary data even when clouds block their view...
Mission Control resolved to try again, but a new mechanical storm cloud soon appeared. Two oil filters, closely resembling the ones used in automobiles, had become clogged with gunk. As a result, two of the shuttle's three auxiliary power units-hydraulic devices crucial to entering orbit and landing-were questionable...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...
...protesters will silently approach the military complex through Arlington Cemetery, while others will carry banners and props across Memorial Bridge. The two groups will meet at the base of the cemetery, where they will "mourn the destructiveness of war." The ceremony will be "theater on a grand scale," Cloud said...
About 6000 women, including more than 100 from Harvard and the Boston area, are expected to march on the Pentagon next week to protest "the system of power and dominance held in place by violence," Kate Cloud, Boston organizer for the march said yesterday...