Word: solar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano. Flanders wrote the words for the songs they sing, Swann the music. Flanders also does the talking between songs, which is now and then at Swann's expense. The two of them are notably British yet notably themselves-casual and informal, yet with the timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts. Altogether, they are as engagingly funny a pair as any nation need ask for or any theater season expect...
Lunik III carried "scientific and radio equipment powered by solar batteries and chemical sources of electricity." The Russians explained that radio signals carrying data from the instruments would be sent to earth intermittently for a total of two to four hours a day. "The operation of the equipment will be controlled from a coordinating and computing center on the earth." Since Soviet receiving stations do not girdle the turning earth, Lunik III was presumably programed to transmit its signals only when they would reach Soviet territory...
...their rocket at a time when most of the far side of the moon was in sunlight. Presumably, any picture of the moon's far side would be stored (perhaps on magnetic tape), and transmitted when Lunik III was close to the earth on its return trip. The solar batteries could be programed to store up plenty of electric current for the historic broadcast...
...another, and now J.P.L. products ride in nearly all U.S. satellites, reporting the magnetism, heat and cosmic rays encountered in the unknown reaches of space. Such information has grown so voluminous that J.P.L. has its own computer to interpret it. For tracking space vehicles far out in the solar system, J.P.L. has built a radio telescope 85 ft. in diameter in the Mojave Desert, which can track a vehicle 1,000,000 miles away...
...morning Menzel will see the real thing, weather permitting, when he takes his Freshman Seminar students and Observatory officials in a DC-6 to view a natural eclipse, the first in the Boston area for 300 years. It requires the shortest expedition ever for Harvard astronomers to study a solar eclipse...