Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, snow blindess is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
...slows it down. All these effects are slight, and although the first two have been detected already, the third was until recently beyond the range of observation. But now Dr. Irwin I. Shapiro of M.l.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory proposes to check on Einstein by using the solar system itself as his laboratory...
...combining 120 separate spectroscopic measurements, Dr. Strong and his assistants got a smooth curve showing how strongly the Venusian clouds reflect different wave lengths of solar infrared. This curve matched almost perfectly the reflection spectrum of an ice-crystal cloud observed in the laboratory. It was wholly different from the curves of dust, liquid carbon dioxide, liquid formaldehyde and the other noxious substances that are generally considered to be the content of Venusian clouds...
...temperature of a planet's invisible surface by radio is, he thinks, a far-fetched maneuver. All sorts of things besides hot rocks and dust can generate radio waves. They may come, for instance, from storms in the thick Venusian atmosphere, which is churned by twice as much solar energy as hits the Earth. Experts on cloud physics are finding that even gently turbulent clouds give off radio waves...
...Little Sticky. Mariner had different difficulties. Just as planned, one of its bright-eyed optical sensors locked on the sun, the craft's prime navigational reference and power source for its solar cells. But when another sensor began searching the heavens for a second reference point-the giant, blue-white star Canopus-Mariner got confused and began looking around in all directions...