Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who are willing to fight the traffic to and from Maine this weekend might have clear sky for the 50 seconds of totality. If so, the two interesting solar phenomena that can be photographed are Bailey's Beads, which occur for a second just before and just after totality when light breaks through the valleys on the moon's rim, and the solar corona...
Most Americans have not seen a good solar eclipse since 1954, and after this week they will not see another until 1970. This week's performance, clouds permitting, will entertain most of North America. Saturday's show will start at dawn in Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, where the sun will rise with the moon already squarely in front of it. Then the tip of the moon's black, conical shadow will race northeast, crossing the Bering Sea and coming ashore in Alaska just south of the Yukon. West of Canada's Great Slave Lake...
Whipple became director of the Smithsonian Observatory in 1955. Under his leadership it has grown from a small station making only solar observations to a center employing 350 persons engaged in a wide range of astronomical research proects...
...present radio waves are sent over long distances by bouncing them off ionized layers of gas in the earth's atmosphere. Unfortunately, signals from the ionosphere can be jammed, and events such as a large solar flare can cause a radio fadeout by impairing the ionosphere's ability to transmit signals. From a military standpoint, a radio fadeout or jamming could be disastrous in certain situations. Therefore the Air Force supported Morrow's plan, to create a fully reliable global communication system...
...little validity. Astronomers admit that they cannot detect the "needles" today. But they argue that the little dipoles will cause real interference if their observational equipment improves as much during the next decade as it has in the past one. However, the copper wires, forced down by pressure from solar radiation, should burn up harmlessly in the lower atmosphere in less than five years...