Word: porousness
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Anthony Barringer, a Canadian geophysicist, is unbothered by Soviet se crecy. At a symposium on remote sensing in Huntsville, Ala., last week, he theorized that Luna 7's radar may have failed to "see" a top porous layer of the moon's crust. As a result, the space ship crashed on its way to a landing on the hard lunar rock below...
...that the craft was not demolished upon impact. The tardy retrorocket firing that probably made the difference between success and failure, Barringer decided, could have been caused by an altimeter error of as little as 30 ft. - which some scientists believe is the approximate depth of a layer of porous rock or partially compacted dust that covers the moon. Barringer's conclusion: Russian radar penetrated the moon's top layer, reflected back from the bedrock below and reported an incorrect altitude...
...caused several plane crashes. Barringer is also conducting laboratory experiments for NASA to study the possibility of designing a radar system that would measure the thickness of the moon's surface layer from an orbiting vehicle. He has bounced radar pulses off simulated lunar crusts made of porous lava and compressed lava dust, and found that both are highly radar transparent...
Yardling coach Henry Lamar's balanced, straight T offense is capable of finding plenty of holes in Princeton's porous defense. Steve Ranere and Lionel Kaplan are rangy, adept receivers for the accurate short passes of Stargel and George Lalich, Gatto, John Tyson, and punter Joe McKinney pace a powerful inside running attack, with Gatto always a breakaway threat...
...Indians massacred New Hampshire last year, 40-0, and today's game won't be much different. Dartmouth's fleet backfield, led by quarterback Mickey Beard, should have little difficulty running over, Wildcat defense. The score can be as under, around, and through the porous big as Dartmouth Coach Bob Blackman wants to make it, and anyone who was in Harvard Stadium on October 24, 1964, knows the extent of Blackman's compassion...