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Drum & Sail. The heaviest part of OSO is a nine-sided drum containing batteries, radio equipment and position-control apparatus (see diagram). Mounted on a shaft running through the center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady...
...m.p.h., it was moving at more than 25,000 m.p.h. It would slice through the moon's orbit in 55 hours instead of 66 as planned. And at that time, the moon would not be there; Ranger III would miss by nearly 25,000 miles (see diagram...
...engine is a gas turbine affair-adapted in principle from the turbojet airplane engine-which Chrysler has been working on for years (TIME, March 29, 1954). A compressor forces air into a chamber where it is heated and then mixed with fuel (see diagram). A single spark plug ignites the mixture, and the expanding hot gases drive two turbines. The first turbine turns the original air compressor, and the second turns the power shaft that connects to the rear wheels. The exhaust gases are recycled into a regenerator to heat the incoming...
Around the equator, air from the troposphere passes upward into the stratosphere, then whirls toward the poles. When it reaches the Arctic, it sinks and re-enters the troposphere (see diagram). If the sinking air carries radioactive particles with it, they are quickly whipped around the earth by fast low-level winds and are eventually deposited on the surface in rain or snow...
...technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating the formation of a barrier beach. For Maine, the diagram shows how glaciers form eskers, drumlins and kames...