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...Jodrell Bank's work is done on pure astronomical research -measuring the angular diameter of quasars and other radio sources, determining the hydrogen content of galaxies, pinpointing the location of radio sources by lunar occultation, mapping the Milky Way. Lovell's particular speciality is studying small flare stars that periodically increase in luminosity...
...decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
...Hour Trip. Not all solar flares are accompanied by dangerous proton outbursts, and the solar patrol will have to take care not to set off a false alarm that might unnecessarily abort a costly Apollo mission. But on the basis of past observations, the patrolmen know that if a flare is large and bright enough, if it is located close enough to a sunspot and is the source of strong radio signals over a wide range of frequencies, its appearance almost always heralds a hail of high-energy protons...
Once an ominous flare is sighted, word will have to be flashed quickly to the lunar astronauts. Speeding outward from the sun, 93 million miles away, the first deadly protons could begin hitting the moon an hour after the first flare sighting. The lethal rain would become increasingly strong, reaching a maximum about six hours later. Long before that maximum, though, if all went well, the astronauts would have blasted off in their LEM to rendezvous and found safety within the protective skin of the orbiting Apollo...
Iranian Foreign Minister Ghollam Abbas Aram used the flare-up to resurrect another longstanding dispute between the two countries over the Shatt-al-Arab River, whose waters, which empty into the Persian Gulf, they are supposed to share. Aram accused Iraq of obstructing Iranian traffic, ignoring a 1937 agreement that was meant to regulate use of the river waters. Announced Aram: "The Iranian government regards the agreement as breached." With that, Iran ordered a mobilization of its forces along the border, alerted its elite Kermanshah Division, scrambled its U.S.-built supersonic F-5 jet fighters, vowing to "silence the voice...