Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Oct. 4--The Russians Sunday rocketed a 614-pound satellite into space aimed at taking mankind's first pictures of the perpetually hidden face of the moon...
...goes well, the unmanned laboratory of intricate instruments should reach the area of the moon Monday night, then back toward a vast, cigar-shaped orbit around the earth...
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...
...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...
...device a disk is placed where an image of the sun and its corona is focused by a lens. This disk acts like the moon during a natural eclipse of the sun by blocking out or eclipsing the bright solar disk...