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Whatever the subjects were, they were discussed in quiet voices. Even the space spectacular at Baikonur, the Soviet missile site deep in Central Asia, was a bit sotto voce. Instead of the multinational, six-man lunar shot that some observers had predicted, the Russians showed their guests the launch of a radio-and-TV-relay satellite named Molniya (Lightning). About the only clue from the Moscow summit was a negative one: in the list of slogans promulgated last week for the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, a key phrase was missing. For the first time since 1918, the Soviets...
...graphics, opened last week in New York's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. "My paintings are really a personal diary of my life," he says. This year, for instance, he did a view of the Soviet zone from a skyscraper near the Berlin Wall. "Before me I saw a lunar landscape," he recalls. "I wanted to record this part of a country sentenced to death." As a commission for the German government for $50,000 (which he gave to children's charity), he painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory and shrinking in form...
...nothing more than reflected sunlight may well have been misinformed. More and more scientists have become convinced that the moon occasionally generates light of its own. During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...Lunar Bombardment. Writing in Nature, Physicist Kuan-Han Sun suggests that a combination of the solar wind, meteorites, and lunar temperature changes provide ideal conditions for thermoluminescence-the release of stored-up energy in the form of visible light during a rapid temperature rise. Like other bodies in the solar system, Sun points out, the moon is constantly bombarded by a solar wind consisting of charged, low-energy particles boiled off the solar surface and "blown" into space. Because these particles, which are mostly protons, follow magnetic lines of force, they can strike the moon from all directions, hitting...
...Surveyor's rocket fuel. In a last effort, they fired the spacecraft's big retrorocket while it was still 70,000 miles from the moon. The spin rate slowed, but not nearly enough. Then, while the retrorocket was firing, all contact was lost with the ill-fated lunar voyager...