Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still looking up, Surveyor later scored another space-age first, shooting 20 spectacular photographs of a solar eclipse that was unlike any ever before seen by man. Instead of being blotted out by the moon-as it is during solar eclipses seen on earth-the sun was temporarily hidden behind the earth. During the two hours that Surveyor was in the shadow cast by the eclipse, lunar midday temperatures plummeted from...
...dried up, before they could carve out major features such as valleys and stream beds similar to those formed by water flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface and insulated from solar heat. The gradual melting and vaporization of this ice, which would leave voids beneath the surface, may account for the cave-ins visible in moon-probe photographs...
Within the past two years, however, radar observations of Mercury's surface have disproved the theory. Instead of revolving once on its axis during the 88 days it takes the planet to complete one solar orbit-as it would have to do to present the same face to the sun-Mercury was found to rotate once every 59 days. This would mean that to a Mercury man-if there were one who could stand its temperatures (as high as 790° F.)-the sun would seem to move slowly across the sky, providing daylight for about 88 days. Then...
...longitudes where dawn could be observed during the solar reversal, the sun would seem to rise slowly until more than half of it was above the eastern horizon. Then it would set below the same horizon, and soon rise again before heading for a more normal sunset in the west...
...devices on the telefactor's hands would enable the earthbound operator to feel just how strong a grasp they were exerting-allowing the robot to make adjustments without exerting damaging pressure on delicate instruments. Using the same system, Bradley says, a telefactor could work outside the ship, assembling solar-cell panels or erecting space platforms "as effortlessly as a child assembling Tinkertoys...