Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good deal easier to find comets then to understand them. Scientists is know, however, that all observed comets are part of the solar system -- that is, they revolve around the sun. They will not all remain in our solar system: it is known that certain ones will eventually escape, perhaps to be picked up be another star. It has been estimated that there are a hundred billion comets in orbit, Marsden said...
...existence it has remained only a dream. Primitive man made sacrifices to the elements, often in human blood, and the Greeks made gods of weather's components: Typhon, Zephyros, Apollo. Beginning with the Greek Philosopher Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.), who correctly surmised that climate was generated by solar radiation, there have been thousands of efforts at influencing weather. Now that man is approaching the stage at which some control is possible, the question is not just how he can exert his influence but how far he should go in pressing changes whose consequences still remain hidden...
Whether the rising sun had warmed the receiver until it drifted back toward its design frequency, Surveyor's ground controllers could not be sure. It was also possible that the craft's batteries had been completely discharged, that they had to wait patiently until solar panels generated enough electrical current to replenish them with a slow, "trickle" charge. Either way, there was no doubt that Surveyor was back in action, leaving JPL with the ironic task of trying to figure out what assignments to give it-the moonship had already done so much that there was little left...
...slowly sank toward the moon's horizon, the lengthening shadows cast by Surveyor itself appeared with startling clarity in shots of nearby terrain. In one picture, the 10-ft.-high spaceship's shadow stretched 50 ft. away. At sunset, the camera, aimed directly at the solar fireball, captured the brilliant halo of the sun's corona-usually invisible on earth because of the terrestrial atmosphere. After nightfall, Surveyor successfully took the last of the 10,338 photographs it has shot since June 2, when it settled on the moon. The four-minute time exposure showed...
...darkness, however, it has already accomplished enough to generate some inspired scientific prose. Rhapsodized NASA Associate Administrator Homer Newell: "Today Surveyor stands alone in the dark on the desolate plain of the Ocean of Storms, a solitary artifact of men who live on another body of the solar system, 240,000 miles away...