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...will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 91 cm wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 1.5 m below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 870?C to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along with other elements. The lander can also measure ultraviolet radiation, temperature and atmospheric pressure, all variables that play...
Five unshaven men with blackened work boots and thick gloves move toward the giant, greasy drill that has just emerged from beneath the ground. Once the drill is unhinged and swings freely, the crew encircles it and locks onto it a 9.5-m extension that will take this subterranean search for the mother lode even deeper into the earth. It is a rugged if familiar ballet of industrial labor, repeated daily from a perch halfway up a 65-m-high steel tower. But this time the familiar scene is not taking place on a North...
...This has led over the past two decades to Enel's development of innovative deep exploration techniques that allowed it to drill down past the hotter (up to 400C) subterranean layers that exist at 3,000 to 4,000 m - twice as deep as earlier explorations. The Tuscan approach of looking deeper is now utilized elsewhere in the world during initial explorations, and will be applied when other shallow wells begin to dry up. Back at the drilling site, a team of geologists demonstrates the latest push to expand the search for new sources of steam. Borrowing from the most...
...down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin, a man who once took pitcher Goose Gossage aside--before a spring-training game in which he would face a black player--and told him, "I want you to drill the little n_____ in the head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs in the World Series with four successive swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost...
...tightly structured, 30-min. circuit-training workout on eight to 12 exercise machines. A recorded voice tells you when to move to the next machine. Most locations are open just seven hours a day, and there are no showers, massages or fruit smoothies. You walk in, follow the drill and leave...