Word: solarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists and engineers to work overtime on defense projects. It already produces 95% of its own ammunition, and soon may even make its own nuclear weapons. For all their military efforts, however, Israeli scientists have not ignored peaceful research. They have developed new irrigation techniques, tapped solar energy, bred deep-sea fish in captivity and even solved the riddle of how the camel stores water (in the bloodstream). As the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President, once explained: "Of course, miracles happen, but it needs hard work to make them...
During 32 hours on the moon, Conrad and Bean will take two strolls, each lasting 3½ to 4 hrs., gather about 130 lbs. of lunar rocks, and stage several scientific experiments. In addition to such familiar activities as measuring bombardment of the moon by solar particles and setting up another seismometer to detect lunar rumbling, the astronauts will leave behind three sophisticated instruments: 1) a magnetometer to take readings of the moon's weak, though detectable magnetic field that may tip off scientists to the moon's internal structure; 2) an ion detector capable of determining...
...contained in a 40-inch box that is open at one end. The box is plated with gold to distribute heat evenly. A cluster of 13 light detectors-much like the electric eye on a camera-keeps the box pointed at the sun. A small telescope mirror collects solar rays coming through the open end of the box and then reflects them onto a diffraction grating, a row of closely-scaped lines that breaks the light up into a spectrum. This spectrum constantly changes as different chemical reactions occur...
...area only 1/15 the size of the sun's visible disc. Where earlier OSO satellites were able to take only one picture of the entire surface every 5 minutes, this telescope can also map a small region every 30 seconds. This allows the astronomers to follow very fast solar reactions in greater detail...
...solar telescope experiments scheduled for NASA's manned. Apollo Applications Program were designed at the Observatory and will add to the data gained from...