Word: wet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Play was cancelled Saturday and Sunday because of rain and cold. And Monday everyone was forced to play 36 holes even though the weather remained chilly and wet. The fairways were sopped, and Penn State's wide-open par 69 course played very long...
With its facile, steel-tipped aluminum claw, which can be extended to 5 ft., Surveyor dug and photographed more trenches, helping to confirm its earlier finding that the soil at the surface in this area of the Ocean of Storms is dry and granular but has the cohesiveness of wet sand. By measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that operated the claw, JPL scientists determined that the surrounding surface has a bearing strength of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support the Apollo astronauts...
...meteorites also contain carbon compounds that suggest an even more fascinating possibility. They could have been produced, says Urey, by primitive life forms that survived their violent passage from the earth and multiplied rapidly in the lunar waters during the few millenniums that the moon was wet...
Fascinating Possibility. The moon could not remain wet for long, says Urey. Because of weak lunar gravity, the water that evaporated during the moon's long, hot days would have escaped into space, along with the primitive atmosphere. Within a few thousand years after they had formed, Urey believes, the lunar waters dried up, before they could carve out major features such as valleys and stream beds similar to those formed by water flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface...
Urey bases his wet-moon theory on far more than mere visual evidence. As he sees it, most of the earth's stony meteorites come from the moon, knocked off by other meteorites and occasional comets that have bombarded the lunar surface. Imbedded in many of those moon-sent meteorites are smooth fragments that appear to have been shaped by frictional effects like those that would be caused by flowing water. They also contain such minerals as clay-type silicates and calcium carbonates that Urey says "can hardly be accounted for except by the action of liquid water over...