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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Initial attempts to locate an explosive satellite booster rocket spotted underwater by sonar failed, and Navy divers intensified their offshore search yesterday for wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger...
Norton said the 22 divers aboard the Navy salvage ship USS Preserver concentrated their efforts in a zone where "good sonar images" showed the 10-by-17 foot "inertial upper stage" rocket was resting on the ocean bottom...
Space agency officials would only say that three NASA ships were at sea conducting sonar sweeps and photographing underwater objects with robot subs...
Stanford University's Science Department developed a robot with visual--and not sonar--capacity: a camera on the robot takes pictures of a room and changes direction according to the pictures, visually "mapping out" the room. But this robot "is too expensive and takes eight hours to get across a single room because of its process of taking pictures and then programming," says Jury...
...able to monitor." One monitoring procedure consists of measuring levels of the hormone estrogen in a patient's blood or urine. As the follicles mature, hormone levels gradually increase. The higher the estrogen level, the likelier it becomes that more than one egg has matured. Another procedure is the sonar-scanning technique called ultrasound, which produces black-and-white images of a woman's ovaries upon which the number of ripening eggs can be counted. Multiple pregnancies can usually be avoided by using one or both methods. In spite of their ordeal, the Frustacis have faith in drugs like Pergonal...