Word: vaporizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jetliner and flew high over Canada during last summer's eclipse, Drs. Guglielmo Righini of Italy and Armin J. Deutsch of the U.S. counted on snapping some of the clearest pictures yet of the sun's glowing corona. But up there above the dust, water vapor and other difficulties of the earth's atmosphere, the two astronomers told the Florence meeting of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), they found far more than they expected. Their pictures of the sun's spectrum showed a strange line that had not been predicted by any of their calculations...
...closed network of pipes; but in the process of giving up heat much of it condenses to distilled water. This condensate is collected and pumped (through a small pipe on the floor of the Tunnel) back to the Western Avenue power plant where it is again converted to superheated vapor...
Analysis of the spectra showed that above its cloud deck, the Venusian atmosphere has about 9.8 milligrams of water vapor per square centimeter. This is not much, but it is not far from the amount that is believed to exist above a comparable level in the earth's atmosphere...
...Strong prefers not to decide whether the presence of water vapor means that the dense Venusian clouds are made of water droplets like the earth's clouds or whether they are dust or hydrocarbons, as some authorities think. "I have now come to the end of my competence," he says, "but my personal opinion is that it does imply water." Further deductions are even more iffy, but Dr. Strong suspects that free oxygen may exist along with carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere. If so, it probably comes from water molecules that are broken into hydrogen and oxygen...
Where water exists at reasonable temperature, life may exist too, even if only as microscopic organisms floating in the clouds. Dr. Strong believes that "the proof of water vapor forces us to re-examine every previous calculation made concerning the possibility of some sort of life existing on Venus. The case is not closed...