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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...
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...
...Dartmouth baseball team jumped on Harvard pitcher Ray Peters for three runs in the fourth inning, added two more in the fifth, and coasted in from there to win a wet 5-0 baseball game yesterday in the rain at Splinter Stadium...
...congregated in the summers at his sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped: "Just because your cousin Theodore behaves like an idiot is no reason why you should behave like an idiot...