Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomer, Gold approached the puzzle with a fresh perspective. He knew that carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the solar system, appearing in planets, asteroids, meteors and comets, often in the form of hydrocarbons. Gold believes that when the primordial gaseous swirl condensed into the sun and its satellites, large amounts of hydrocarbons settled in the earth's interior. Some of those compounds seeped upward into porous rocks and sediments, says Gold, and became such accessible pockets of riches as the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula. He predicts that if greater depths were mined, fuel reserves...
Gadgets designed to enhance the cyclist's performance have also become top sellers. Japan's Cateye makes a $66 solar-powered magnetic device that tells a % biker the average speed and distance traveled. San Diego-based SkidLid Manufacturing produces a $52 helmet with a rear-view mirror. There are even accessories for babies: the $30 L'il Bell Shell helmet is designed for tots riding on the back of their parent's bike...
...green-haired mimes nor 6-ft.-tall strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line...
...odds they faced were formidable. The signals could reactivate the tumbling satellite only when its solar panels faced the sun, which provides the power need- ed to run the craft's transmitter, and when the oscillator could be turned on long enough for it to stabilize. This un- likely confluence actually occurred in late April. After the controllers reprogrammed NOAA-8's computer, they reoriented the satellite and restored its power. Last week the rescue team was testing the craft's onboard systems in preparation for returning it to full service in July. Said Controller Gilbert Phelps: "It was simply...
...streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...