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...Meanwhile, molten steel is steadily added from above so that a continuous ribbon of steel is produced. The continuous casting process can be almost completely automated, produces a uniform grade of steel, and in German plants has saved as much as $10 a ton in production costs of regular carbon steel. Though a handful of other U.S. steelmakers had already begun experimenting with continuous casting, U.S. Steel's adoption of the process means that it is sure to sweep the U.S. steel industry...
...planet. Mars has no light of its own. The light that it sends to the earth is sunlight that passes down through the thin Martian atmosphere and is reflected out again. Loss of certain infra-red wave lengths during these two passages will prove the presence of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other interesting, life-supporting constituents...
Readings on the two infra-red wave lengths were essentially identical. This could be interpreted to mean that there were no breaks in the Venusian clouds and that the infra-red waves came from a high, opaque cloud deck. The amount of carbon dioxide above this deck was too small to be detected...
Physicist Louis D. Kaplan of the University of Nevada and JPL, who helped design Mariner II's infra-red experiment, thinks that at ground level, Venus' atmospheric pressure may be 10 to 20 times that of Earth. Its dry, unbreathable air contains perhaps 10% carbon dioxide (v. .03% for Earth) and probably a little nitrogen. The clouds are so dense that the surface is probably dark. Radar waves bounced off Venus indicate rather uncertainly that there may be both mountains and smooth places, as on the earth...
Silicon Life. When JPL's space denizens have learned to land softly on the moon, they can do the same on Mars, studying or even fighting off any kind of life that exists there. That life may be based on unfamiliar chemistry, perhaps using silicon in place of carbon and some other solvent in place of water. After Mars, comes Jupiter, the monster planet that seems to be bursting with unexplained commotion...