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Urey himself believes that if the moon does indeed prove to be "cold," its virtually intact primordial surface may provide not only important clues about the moon's beginnings but also about the origin of the solar system. The most ancient rocks found on earth are 3.3 billion years...
Science-fiction writers have long enjoyed developing similar themes. Nelson Bond, in a short story called The Cunning of the Beast, published in 1942 told about a weak-bodied, high-minded scientist named the Yawa Eloem who tried to create intelligent animals to serve his fellow academicians on the distant...
Puzzling Erosion. In all, Manner 7 radioed back 126 pictures, compared with 74 by Mariner 6, before speeding behind Mars en route to an orbit around the sun. The pictures have all but ended the old controversy about the so-called Martian canals. The "canals" are not distinct linear features...
By surveying this primordial and dying form of society, anthropologists hope to learn what the hunter-gatherer can tell of man's earliest history. Writes University of Chicago Anthropologist Sol Tax: "We should study the reasons for the persistence of these peoples in light of all the conditions militating...
Yet despite the recent heady accomplishments, the major questions about the moon remain unanswered: Where and how did it originate? Was it torn Eve-like from the side of the earth, or did it form separately out of the same primordial dust cloud? Was it a planetary interloper captured by...