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Speaking before a crowd of 350 at the Science Center. Goody described the discovery of the outer planets of the solar system and recent exploration of distant planetary satellites...
Titan's atmosphere is "probably similar to the earth's first [original] atmosphere," Goody said, because it contains large amounts of methane and nitrogen. "If there is life anywhere in the solar system, Titan seems the most likely place to find it," he added...
...question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped to life when Chemical Engineer Russell Phillips explained that the name refers not to some new foreign movie director but rather to thin layers of organic matter that might some day be used to convert solar energy to electricity. The explanation spurred another scientist, Nevin Hiester, to point out that Langmuir Blodgett films are still too expensive for widespread use in industry...
...earth's atmosphere. A coronograph is a telescope engineered specifically for observing the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun, by blocking the light of the sun's disk. The corona, an area of extremely low density and high temperature, can be most clearly observed naturally during a solar eclipse. Kohl's coronograph would pick up the ultraviolet light emitted by the corona and analyse it to reveal the density and velocity of the particles in the corona...
...fourth Harvard scientist with a space shuttle experiment, William Parkinson, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics, could not be reached for comment on his project--a solar and terrestrial atmosphere spectrometer. Spectrometers are used to analyze the composition of gases by the unique characteristics of the light emitted by each element