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...apparent absence of water at the impact sites provides a clue about how far the S-L 9 fragments penetrated Jupiter's atmosphere before exploding. Theorists think that a layer of water vapor lies some 60 miles below the visible cloud tops; above the vapor layer, about 30 miles down, are clouds believed to consist of ammonium hydrosulfide, a sulfur compound. Since no water seems to have been stirred up, the explosions probably took place in the presumed sulfide layer. If researchers confirm that the sulfur rose up from Jupiter, it will be "a major discovery," says University of Arizona...
...duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring the fat and ugly). His mental videotape also conjures, or recalls, a young Thai girl blown to red vapor by a land mine...
...layer of graupel -- soft hailstones that behave like miniature ball bearings -- substantially increases the avalanche hazard. In essence, graupel provides a high-speed conveyor belt for the layers of snow deposited on top. Another kind of trouble comes in the guise of sugar snow -- coarse grains created when water vapor freezes and refreezes. In Colorado a layer of sugar snow formed early in the season, and has greatly added to the risk...
Producer Paul Fox has given the band a more solid rhythmic foundation for this outing. Previously, Merchant and the other Maniacs could be so evanescent that they threatened to disappear in their own vapor trail. Here they sound sturdier, even when a string quartet floats through Merchant's wrenching Jezebel...
...Mars. The first step, according to one recent study, would be to warm the planet by releasing large amounts of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. These gases would act like a greenhouse, trapping the sun's heat. As the planet warmed, the polar caps would begin to melt, releasing water vapor and carbon dioxide into the Martian air, thickening it and increasing the greenhouse effect. Eventually the permafrost, where most of Mars' water is locked up, would melt, and rivers and lakes -- if not oceans -- would flow across the Red Planet again...