Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia space shuttle uses radar as a time machine...
...surface concealed a "large river without water." Last week a team of scientists from the U.S. and Egypt announced that they had definitive evidence that long ago a region of the vast desert in southern Egypt and northern Sudan was a lacy network of major water ways. The proof: radar images of the Sahara taken by the space shuttle Columbia...
...once every 48 hr. in daylight. Big Bird sends back TV images and provides high-resolution photographs, which are ejected in parachute-equipped canisters that can be hooked in mid-air by recovery planes. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have satellites that can scan the earth with radar beams. One objective: to track naval vessels...
Crimson: "You often fish in this top-secret naval base and radar station...
...strongly suspected that the submarine was from a Warsaw Pact nation, most probably the Soviet Union, although Moscow scoffed at the notion, calling it a hoax designed to disrupt Scandinavian-Soviet relations. The naval base on Musk Island is Sweden's largest and most sensitive; its radar keeps constant watch over the country's eastern coastline, which faces the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea. If the vessel were from the Soviet bloc, its probable mission was to gather as many details as possible about the base and the surrounding waters. Washington believes that in the event...