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...learn more about the lunar surface, JPL scientists decided to fire the small attitude-control thrusters located near the bottom of each of Surveyor's three legs, less than a foot above the surface. Seven different times, the thrusters fired jets of nitrogen into the lunar soil while Surveyor's camera shot pictures of the area near its feet. The pictures showed no clouds of dust-another indication that the lunar surface is firmly packed. By week's end, as the sun rose toward its apex in the lunar sky, shortening shadows and making it more difficult...
...pestilent congregation consists of 230,000 tons of soot, fly ash and other paniculate matter, 597,000 tons of sulphur dioxide, 298,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, 567,000 tons of hydrocarbons and 1,536,000 tons of carbon monoxide annually. It leaves every New Yorker with 730 Ibs. of pollutants to contend with every year...
...Fore tribesmen in eastern New Guinea (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957). Eiro, a 13-year-old Fore boy, died of kuru in his New Guinea highland village in September, 1962. A visiting doctor did an autopsy; he took tissue from Eire's brain, froze it, put it in liquid nitrogen at - 70°C., and shipped it to Bethesda...
...South Atlantic. As it turned out, practically all the bugs were on the ground. The shot was delayed for 75 hours, while the kind of weather that Florida does not advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus that the pressure-though low-was sufficient to complete the mission. The rest was something...
Antimatter, which has thus far been created on earth only as infinitesimal particles in giant synchrotrons, reacts violently when it comes into contact with true matter. One product of the Siberian reaction would have been a vast number of free neutrons, many of which would have joined with nitrogen atoms, turning them into radioactive carbon 14. Calculations showed that the explosion would have increased the carbon-14 content of the earth's atmosphere by about 7%. That heightened radioactivity could be expected to show up in vegetable matter a short time later...