Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help. Relay, which went into orbit on Dec. 13, refused to work properly right from the start; a defective part let most of the power leak out of its storage battery. But Relay still obeyed commands. It was told to throw switches to isolate the faulty transponder (transmitter-receiver). Solar cells were able to recharge the satellite's battery. Last week Relay was in operation, using its spare transponder...
...Pardon me while I move the earth here," says Dave Garroway. The unhurried 'voice, with its familiar tone of deity, suggests that he could be taken literally. Actually, fingering a mobile of the solar system peering owlishly at the cameras, Garroway has come back to television-and television is the richer...
Jansky knew that because of the earth's motion while it orbits the sun. the sidereal day, which measures the earth's rotation with respect to the stars, is four minutes shorter than the 24-hour solar day. He concluded that the hiss in his earphones was caused by radio waves from beyond...
...telescopes would fill an enormous book, but radio astronomy is developing so fast that no such book is likely to be written for years. Still, the radio window has already brought the universe to life in numberless unexpected ways. Even the moon, just about the deadest object in the solar system, sends out radio waves that tell something about its temperature and about the material on its surface...
...spectroscope successfully scanned a tiny dot in the solar disc. Liller stated that the information which the instrument relayed back to earth would be correlated and released in the near future...