Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shaped rock named Yogi, stopping on the way to test the consistency of the soil by using five of its wheels for traction and one to dig into the dirt. Sojourner's cameras showed that the rover's shove had displaced what seemed to be a thin layer of crust over the soil. "We used the rover as sort of a bulldozer," explained Golombek...
...seek to engage life, not shrink from it. "There was an innocence that prevailed in the '60s that was crushed by the assassination of J.F.K. and King," says Jewel. "Our parents have become disillusioned. It is their disillusionment we deal with in many ways; it's a kind of crust we have to break through." In the title song on Pieces of You, Jewel attacks religious and sexual intolerance, her voice breaking as she sings, "You say he's a faggot. Are you afraid you're just the same?"; one of Chapman's newest songs is titled The Rape...
...after 2000, NASA is hoping to launch a Europa probe that will orbit the Jovian moon at an altitude of 60 miles--about the same distance at which Apollo spacecraft used to orbit Earth's moon--photographing its surface and taking radar soundings to look for water beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa. Once there it would release a small cylindrical probe with a heated tip that would melt through the ice layer and propel itself through the frigid ocean, looking for signs...
Still another spacecraft might be launched to fly by Europa and drop a 20-lb. sphere onto its surface. Striking the frozen crust with the force of a suitcase full of TNT, the cosmic cannonball would release a mushroom cloud of ice particles into space; the mother ship would then fly through the crystalline mist, collect a bit of it and carry it back to Earth for analysis...
...Basin is a paranoid Holy Land, and no place is better suited for the job. Topography is destiny out here. It is the only region in North America where falling water has no outlet to the ocean (it lies trapped, then evaporates back into the atmosphere). The thin, spreading crust of the valley floors is notoriously unstable, agitated. Hot springs steam up through faults and fissures. Whirling dust devils dance across the flats. The mountain ranges are new, still rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets...