Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacking the problem. The simplest is to raise the humidity in the room. But even in the era of built-in air condition ing, this is more easily said than done. Even if it can be done, excessive humidity results in moisture condensing on the windows in cold weather. The second is to spray antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into...
Satellite pictures of all the world's weather were made available to all the world last week-and at bargain rates. With about $32,000 worth of standard components, any country that is interested can put together a station capable of querying Tiros VIII, the newest weather watcher that the U.S. has fired into orbit...
...transmitted a large batch while passing over expensive installations at Fairbanks, Alaska, Point Mugu, Calif., and Wallops Island, Va. By the time the views from space were forwarded to the world's meteorologists by radio facsimile, they were often too late to help in the forecasts of local weather. But Tiros VIII carries a new type TV camera; its shutter opens for three-thousandths of a second, forming a photoelectric picture of about 1,000,000 square miles of earth. Instead of fading almost instantly like an ordinary TV picture, the shot lasts for 200 seconds while a scanning...
...station is remote from other sources of weather information, the picture may bring the first news of the approach of a dangerous storm. About 40 such stations will be set up around the world by the U.S.; other countries -even Russia or Red China-are free to use Tiros if they want...
Gleams in the Wind. Tiros VIII also carries the standard TV camera with which earlier weather satellites have scanned the earth's clouds. And starting back with Tiros I, launched in '1960, pictures made by that camera have worked on a major revolution in meteorology. Covering vast areas from 400 miles up. the eyes-in-space have reported varieties of cloud behavior that had never been observed before. They have detected unsuspected relations between the cloud patterns and the weather on the surface. They have spotted infant hurricanes when they were hardly more than gleams in the eyes...