Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet capsule also measured Venusian atmospheric pressures up to 15 times as great as the earth's and determined that the atmosphere consists almost entirely of carbon dioxide, which, scientists believe, is spewed out by volcanic activity. No trace of nitrogen (which constitutes 78% of the earth's atmosphere) and only 1.5% of oxygen and water vapor were detected. In readings made before Venus 4 entered the atmosphere, the Russians could find no evidence of a Venusian magnetic field and radiation belt...
...fuel for the supersonic transport and as the propellant in a nuclear rocket. In bubble chambers, it allows scientists to trace the path of sub-atomic particles. Gas companies are liquefying natural gas for more convenient and economical storage, and liquid nitrogen is now used to freeze the earth around excavations so that mud will not slide into the work area...
Died. Friedrich Gogarten, 80, German theologian; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany. An influential but little-known force in the shifting tide of modern Protestantism, Gogarten first joined Karl Earth in the 1920s in a revolt against liberal Christianity, postulating a neo-orthodoxy that stressed the Biblical imperatives of God's word to man. He retreated into seclusion when the Nazis took and twisted to their own ends his idea of a necessary link between theology and a dynamic' social order. After the war, Gogarten backed Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization of the Bible...
...Harvard experiment, one of several based on the 599 pound satellite known as OSO IV, involves scanning the sun's surface closely during a period of about six months, in order to supplement observations made from the earth's surface...
...presently being plotted as coutour maps of the sun's surface. With these maps scientists can find out how the concentration of elements from place to place at the sun's surface varies and how the concentration changes over time. Data this accurate can't be collected from the earth's surface because the atmosphere blocks the ultra-violet rays used for the observations...