Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth and might even erase the inner ring of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, May 4, 1959). U.S. experts called the story overblown, but British Radio Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank observatory protested with characteristic vigor: "All scientists who are searching for basic understanding of the solar system will be filled with dismay at the American proposal...
Whatever future space explorers may find, a couple of California scientists have already decided that the big planet Jupiter and the little planet Earth have at least one thing in common: each is girdled by a strong magnetic field, a rare phenomenon anywhere in the solar system. Using the twin, 90-ft. radio telescopes at California Institute of Technology's Owens Valley Observatory. Research Fellow David Morris and Graduate Student G. L. Berge have estimated the strength of Jupiter's mighty magnetism...
...into orbit, some of the eyes searched for the sun. and nitrogen discharged from a bottle in the drum moved the drum's axis until it was perpendicular to the sun's direction. Next, a motor on the central shaft started turning the sail so that its solar cells pointed steadily...
...gets gyroscopic stability from the spinning drum, while the solar cells on the pointing sail are always in the right position to develop maximum power...
...will take months for scientists to interpret all the new information that OSO is sending about the sun. Every instrument on the complicated satellite is apparently doing its duty. OSO is expected to function as a solar observatory for about six months, when its supply of compressed nitrogen will be exhausted...