Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabot's philanthropic gifts ran to millions-they included amounts for scientific research on bad-weather flying and the uses of solar energy. But Cabot was not a man to toss money about thoughtlessly. "Godfrey," said a friend, "would give his shirt if he thought you needed it and you hadn't asked for it. But ask him for something and, well, he sort of got his back...
...skies with a telescope, astronomers have studied the sun with particular interest. It is the earth's own star, and to earth-bound viewers it glitters with 10 billion times the brightness of any other celestial body. Everything significant that happens on the sun-the emergence of solar flares, for example-signals some effect on the earth's atmosphere...
...even as their sun telescopes have grown larger and more powerful, the sun studiers' problems have grown more complex. When the National Science Foundation set out to build the world's largest solar scope six years ago, a massive investigation had to be made merely to find where to place the monster. Astronomers roamed the U.S.; rockets were fired aloft to check on atmospheric conditions; scores of aerial maps were made before the NSF settled on 6,875-ft. Kitt Peak in Arizona. The peak's flat top, high in the clear air, is well above...
...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...Mariner II will pass plenty close enough to Venus to get a good look. Even at 40,000 miles, its radar and other scientific instruments will be effective if they work properly. Meanwhile, its en route instruments are measuring the solar wind, the great blast of electrically charged particles that the sun shoots out in all directions. At present the wind is rather gentle, but it can rise to hurricane force when a brilliant flare erupts on the sun's surface...