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...miles Size, roughly that of Lake Ontario, of the lakelike feature spotted last week on Saturn's moon Titan...
...workers at 46 U.S. sites. Another issue that may complicate efforts to forge a contract before the October 15 deadline is the location of new plants. The union wants a promise from Chrysler that it will build the Liberty, a subcompact designed to compete with General Motors' Saturn, in the U.S. rather than in South Korea or some other country that offers low-cost labor. SHIPPING S.O.S. from Japan's Sanko...
...launched in 1977 and flew by Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981, sending back spectacular pictures and mountains of data. Last week, still in good health after more than eight years in the void, Voyager 2 had closed to within 46 million miles of Uranus, its next target. The spacecraft's early shots of the mysterious planet, which is four times as large as the earth, were transmitted across 1.8 billion miles of space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They depicted Uranus as a fuzzy blue-green ball, showed its five known moons and barely discerned...
Although light reaching the planet from the sun is only a quarter as bright as it was near Saturn, scientists expect Voyager's cameras (as well as its other instruments) to reveal considerably more detail as the spacecraft draws closer to Uranus and finally swoops to within 66,000 miles of its surface on Jan. 24. Voyager's odyssey will not end there. Accelerated to 45,000 m.p.h. and rerouted by Uranian gravity, it will soar still farther away from the sun, encounter Neptune in 1989, then head out of the solar system on an endless journey to the stars...
General Motors certainly hopes that will be true. The company is betting its reputation and resources that the Saturn project will be the factory of the future. If GM succeeds, American industry will have proved that it has not lost its vision and verve. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Detroit and Joseph J. Kane/Spring Hill