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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Astronomical Union (IAU) may name a crater in the moon's Sea of Tranquility after a deceased Harvard professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, a spokesman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said this week...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: Moonstruck | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...hole which may be named the Menzel Crater is located in the southeast portion of the Sea of Tranquility and is 3.7 kilometers in diameter, making it the most significant feature in the area, Cornell said...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: Moonstruck | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

Native Hawaiians have long attempted to placate the fire goddess Pele by dropping offerings-ohelo berries, liquor and, once upon a time, an occasional human-into the crater of the 4,090-ft. volcano Kilauea. Legend says the fire goddess lives within Kilauea, and it is her outbursts that have made the volcano, located on the big island of Hawaii, the world's most active, erupting on the average of once every 2½ years. But even longtime Kilauea watchers were concerned about the magnitude of the latest demonstration of Pele's power. In mid-September the volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Angry Goddess On a Rampage | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Yamaguchi's faith proved well founded. Army engineers attempted to control the lava by exploding water bombs designed to cool the molten rock and dam its flow, but found their efforts ineffective. Hawaiians tried more traditional means. Flying over the crater, they sacrificed three bottles of gin to the angry goddess. Last week Kilauea gave a final mighty burp and dozed off. The lava flow topped and began to cool into black rock -only some 400 yds. from Kalapana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Angry Goddess On a Rampage | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot in the current album is a "down the hole" look into the summit caldera, or crater, of Mars' Olympus Mons, a volcano that dwarfs the earth's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. Olympus Mons measures 600 kilometers (375 miles)-the width of the state of New Mexico-across its base and towers to 27.4 kilometers (90,000 ft.)-three times the height of Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Postcard from Mars | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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