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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The moon and Mars, Lyttleton calculates, are too small to have liquid cores, and this may be why neither of them has mountain ranges. But Venus is about the same size as the earth, is probably made of much the same material, and it may have a shrinking liquid core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: The Making of Mountains | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Never before in man's history has he stood nearer his celestial neighbors. Powerful radio telescopes collect emissions from the very lip of infinity. Inquisitive hardware, sent up from earth, skims past the moon, Venus, Mars, the sun. The space sciences, in their long climb from superstition, have developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Profundities, Not Facts | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Is Heh-Heh-Hell | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

In 1959, having raised $17 million for the purpose. Sterling moved Stanford's dusty medical school from San Francisco to Palo Alto, gave it a bright young faculty as well as a major research center. Typical of the center's current work is Nobel Prizewinning Exobiologist Joshua Lederberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fast PACE at Palo Alto | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Most asteroids stay on the far side of Mars, but at least twelve are known whose eccentric orbits carry them near the earth. Since all of these were found by sheer accident (such as streaks showing on telescope photographs), there must be plenty more like them that are still unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Asteroids: They Could Become Cabins in the Sky | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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