Word: crater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clearly, the Olympics should have been forgone this year in favor of the Barbaric Games. Suitable sites would have ranged from Death Valley to a moon crater. Contesting teams would have made up in color what they lacked in numbers: the Arabian Assassins, the Belfast Bombers, the Pakistan Predators, and an unattached club-the Skyjackers...
Starting with the creation of Yellowstone in 1872, Congress has step by step pioneered in establishing what is surely the world's greatest system of national parks-with tremendous new parks yet to be selected in Alaska. The system embraces the incense cedars and sapphire waters of Crater Lake in Oregon, the Great Smoky Mountains' misty rills in Appalachia, the giant cathedrals of California's redwoods, Arizona's mighty Grand Canyon, Maine's sparkling Acadia. Each park was chosen for its beauty and grandeur and preserved intact forever for public "enjoyment...
Movie footage taken through a window of the descending lunar module Orion offers a panoramic view of the rubbled Cayley Plains, the craters looming ever larger. Then a black speck appears on the approaching surface, expanding rapidly until it is recognizable as Orion's sharp, spidery shadow, and finally disappearing in a swirl of gray dust as the lander touches on the surface. There are also still shots that strikingly convey the eerie desolation of lunar distances. None is more dramatic than one that shows the Lunar Rover parked on the far edge of a yawning crater while Astronaut...
...week during the third and final EVA (extravehicular activity) by Young and Duke on the plains of Descartes. With helpful navigational guidance from Houston, 240,000 miles away, the astronauts drove their $12 million moon cart to the very rim of a large feature called North Ray Crater, some three miles away from the lunar lander, Orion. As the rover's television camera followed them, they threaded their way down North Ray's steep slopes, going deeper into a large crater than any of the eight previous moon walkers. Inside the crater wall, they chipped away...
...moon's surface, including the far side which is hidden from earth, and measured the solar wind, the constant streams of particles that flow away from the sun. His most important observation may well have been a visual one: he described large globs of material near the Crater Mandelshtam that provided scientists with the first evidence of ancient lava flows on the moon's far side...