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...this gloomy sphere may be at least half water. Ganymede also seems watery, but appears to have an ice crust and possibly a mud core. Remarkably, both moons are dotted with dark spots that some scientists are tentatively calling ice volcanoes-craters that spew ice instead of fire and lava. Still closer to Jupiter, Europa apparently hides a rocky core beneath its bright icy surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Intimate Glimpses of a Giant | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Scoones was not even as lucky as the fishermen. A week into the hunt, the cable to his camera snagged and broke, the equipment was lost, and his frustrated TV crew promptly returned to England. Only a few days later a volcano erupted on Great Comoro. With lava flowing toward the sea, frantic natives commandeered Scoones' boat as an emergency vessel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Fossil | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...topographic map of 35% of the hidden Venusian surface showing details 100 meters (330 ft.) high and 16 km (10 miles) across. Earlier radar scans of the surface by the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, indicate that Venus is pockmarked with craters, possibly active volcanos and great lava flows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Year of the Planets | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...radar to penetrate the clouds and produce a rough topographic map of much of the Venusian surface. Previous radar scans, made by the giant radio telescope in Arecibo, P.R., have already detected some craters, a large chasm, possible volcanoes, mountainous areas, and what seems to be a giant lava flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Still Another Touch of Venus | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...cuisinards, trash mashers, yogurt-makers, decorator cologne sets, soap-on-a-rope, leisure suits, pulsating shower heads, vibrabeds, three-dimensional chess sets, digital watches, coffee-table pictorial history books, pet rocks, ant farms, pastel toothpicks, statuettes inscribed "world's greatest mom" and world's greatest dad," incense holders, lava lamps, shampoos smelling like exotic fruit, toy rifles with plastic arsenals big enough to defeat plastic armies, desk organizers, and of course metal-and-plastic Christmas trees. And they had no idea what to do with...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

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