Word: marse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sir: It was fitting that when Adlai Stevenson met his death [July 23], America was making world history with its Mariner conquest of Mars. It was fitting because Stevenson believed in man; he knew that there was nothing man could not do, from the vilest destruction to the most inspiring...
The dot numbers were recorded in the binary code of ones and zeros, the language of computers. Thus white (0) was 000000, black (63) showed up as 111111. Each picture-actually 40,000 tiny dots encoded in 240,000 bits of binary code-was stored on magnetic tape for transmission...
Computers on Earth digested the pictures, digit by digit, and "developed" them by translating the numerical values into the correct shades of light to be projected onto a photographic film. All told, Mariner was programmed to take and transmit up to 21 such pictures of Mars. But excited Mariner engineers...
The pictures were not as clear as JPL engineers had hoped for, but certainly better than they had feared. Over the next few months the Mariner picture team will experiment with various methods to highlight the most meaningful images: they will try to clean up the signals, check and recheck...
> Dan Schneiderman, 43, electrical engineer and Mariner IV project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in...