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...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Two days before the Mariner II space probe passes within 21,000 miles of Venus, CBS probes the possible discoveries that its instruments could make...
Three centuries have passed since Galileo peered through his primitive telescope and first saw the moons of Jupiter and the golden crescent of Venus. Telescopes have been vastly improved since then, but men still study the stars through the same window opening on the universe. Their best lenses and most perfect mirrors work with visible light, and what cannot be brought into focus seemed forever beyond man's reach...
...planets have come to life too. Venus sends waves which hint that the temperature under its clouds is much too high for earth-type life. Jupiter pulsates with many kinds of radio waves. One kind comes from an easily observable shell...
Although the University has worked in the past with the space program, and presently has an instrument on the satellite which will pass close to Venus, the forthcoming Aerobee signals the first time that Harvard has had a rocket flight of its own or played a major role in a satellite project. The HCO team, some members of which now virtually commute between Cambridge and Canaveral, is gaining the experience that will allow Harvard a permanent role in U.S. space research...
...Mariner II will pass plenty close enough to Venus to get a good look. Even at 40,000 miles, its radar and other scientific instruments will be effective if they work properly. Meanwhile, its en route instruments are measuring the solar wind, the great blast of electrically charged particles that the sun shoots out in all directions. At present the wind is rather gentle, but it can rise to hurricane force when a brilliant flare erupts on the sun's surface...