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...Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making about 100 m.p.h. On the "down" side they picked up radio communication with Anchorage (Alaska), Seattle and San Francisco, reported their position occasionally but not regularly. They were advised to swing east because of thick weather but kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico...
...Mars, Despite the spreading of the frosty polar caps of Mars in winter and the darkening of the "canals" in summer (possible evidence of vegetation), astronomers have long been convinced that there is very little water on the "red planet." The amount of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere appears to be less than 5% of that on earth. It is difficult to measure the planet's water by spectrographic means because of spectrum lines caused by vapor in the Earth's air. Last spring Astronomers Walter Sydney Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory...
Like a gnat buzzing over a man's bald head, the ANT-25 droned along at a bare 100 m. p. h. with its 2,000-gal. load of gas, passed 20 mi. away from the North Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down...
...habitation, almost at exact antipodes from Little America. The erroneous press reports probably arise from misinterpretation of Krenkel's remarks that his present radio equipment is based on his (communication) experience with the Byrd Expedition in 1930. Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen (Franz Joseph) Land constituted one of the most interesting outside connections to us at Little America during 1929-30; when we reported sitting down to supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle...
...against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...