Word: mapped
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...Future Map. NASA, working through the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will aim high-powered pulses of laser light at the satellite from positions on the earth. By measuring the length of time the light needs to travel to the satellite and reflect to the laser stations, scientists will be able to calculate the exact distance from each laser gun to LAGEOS. Thus, by placing stations on each of the dozen or so tectonic plates that constitute the earth's surface, they can track the rate and direction of the plate movement, which results in continental drift. With stations on each...
...expected to remain in orbit for so long, NASA has placed aboard it two stainless-steel sheets, each etched with a message conceived by Astrophysicist Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Designed to inform extraterrestrial visitors or future inhabitants of the earth about the LAGEOS mission, the message shows three maps of the earth, depicting the continental drift that the satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet...
...male caller told Jeremy C. Gelb '76, who was in charge of the bells desk, "Currier House will be blown off the map in half an hour." Gelb notified Paul and Barbara Rosencrantz, Currier House Co-Masters, and also notified Harvard police...
There were all these envelopes and rules I had to follow which I momentarily discarded, and then I unfolded it--big and pink, just like a big red road map. Just like a big pink road map for the soul...
...truck driver-turned-preacher at the First Independent Calvary Baptist Chruch of Witcher's Creek, West Virginia. He is presently appealing his three-year sentence for blowing up Midway Elementary School during the textbook issue. I just didn't want to look at the big pink road map after that...