Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow time, the Lunik emitted a cloud of sodium vapor. It was too low in the east for good observation in Western Europe, but several Soviet observatories reported seeing it. The cloud gave an accurate check of the course, and presently the Russians announced that Lunik II would actually hit the moon at 12:05 a.m. on Monday Moscow time (5:05 p.m. E.D.T. Sunday...
...keep telling myself, 'If you do, you'll slow down and freeze to death or die from lack of oxygen.' Just as I was considering pulling the cord, I felt a shock. I looked up to see the chute. All I could see was cloud. But I could tell from pulling on the risers that I had a good chute...
...looked up to see the mushroom cloud," said Hotelman Paul Ryan. Instead he saw a 300-ft. pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were...
Other eyes look into subjects of more immediate importance to men on earth. A small mirror housed in a tube peers down from one side of Explorer VI and gathers impressions of the cloud layers over the earth. An electronic counter digests the mirror's impressions and turns them into radio signals, which eventually become crude photographs of the earth's weather patterns. Two magnetometers watch the earth's magnetic field, may help map the field and explain its curious storms and their effect on earth communications...
...wouldn't the globe-girdling radio waves also bounce off the trail of ionized gases left by a high-altitude rocket or the cloud of ionized gases created by a nuclear explosion? Then, if there were even a slight difference in the returning echo patterns-and if receivers could be made sensitive enough to detect the difference -monitoring oscilloscopes could display telltale evidence of what the waves had encountered on their travels. Since these radio waves bounce around the earth, the new method would overcome the limitation of radar, whose line-of-sight waves travel in straight lines, thus...