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Blaming the "smooth surface" theory on the lack of fine detail in the Lunik photograph, Menzel maintains that topographical features indicate the far side is "rougher, if anything...
Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, yesterday flatly contradicted the theory that the back side of the moon is smoother than the front...
...spite of the surface controversy, he complimented the photograph as "remarkably good." Students in Menzel's freshman seminar have verified the photograph's authenticity by examining its edges for known landmarks made visible by slight aberrations in the moon's orbit. He obtained the picture from the Associated Press...
...other planes, likewise loaded with scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...
...Menzel presented a brief talk about the eclipse until the plane broke though into sunlight. When the moon started the fifty-six-second period of totality, the airliner became a scene of controlled confusion. Nearly everyone on the plane hurriedly snapped pictures, since the next eclipse in this area will not come for 300 years...