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Across 36 million miles of space, the incredibly intricate instruments of Mariner II flashed their coded reports. But what had the spacecraft seen and recorded in its triumphant dash past Venus (TIME, Dec. 21)? Though the answers will be as many and varied as Mariner's many experimental observations, the first data deciphered by scientists seemed disappointingly empty: as far as Mariner's magnetometer could tell, Venus has no magnetic field. But even this negative finding has fascinating implications. It hints that Venus may be a more attractive hunk of space real estate than scientists have supposed...
Unlikely Field. At last week's Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Physicist Paul J. Coleman of the University of California said that the spacecraft's magnetometer worked perfectly during the flyby, but it reported no increase of magnetism. Coleman reminded his colleagues that Venus may have spots of strong local magnetism that do not make themselves felt far from the surface. But this is unlikely, and if Venus has a single magnetic field similar to the earth's, it must be less than 5-10% as strong...
...have sprung up in the South and Southwest, also handled the reconstruction of Guam after World War II. Recently, Brown & Root snagged the prestigious $40 million Mohole contract to drill through the earth's crust, and it has just started construction of NASA's $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Its average yearly business: $300 million...
Edward Lilley, associate professor of Astronomy, who helped design the Venus Mariner II spacecraft, yesterday explained and evaluated the experiment...
Lilley working with three other scientists, helped make the first plans for the radio telescopes in June 1960 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, Calif. The scientific instruments and the spacecraft were assembled in California and then taken to Cape Canaveral to be tested. The final decision on the type of radio telescopes to use was made there...