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Tightlipped as usual, the Russians would say only that Venus 4 weighs 2,438 lbs. and will attempt to collect data on "super long-distance measurements," as well as to investigate surface conditions and other characteristics of cloud-covered Venus. Impressed by the weight of the Soviet craft-the heaviest ever sent to Venus-envious U.S. space experts speculated that it could be carrying a TV camera and a capsule capable of being ejected into the Venusian atmosphere and lowered to the surface-perhaps by parachute -in a soft-landing attempt...
Mutual Education. On file in Saint-Cloud are 930,000 identity cards, 60,000 sets of fingerprints and 5,000 photos of "specialized criminals" classified according to year of birth, height and facial measurements under a telltale system that sometimes even plastic surgery cannot fool. Another ingenious file contains perforated cards that, superimposed, tell at a glance how many persons from different categories (men, women, Dominicans, Dahomeyans) have committed similar major crimes-especially useful when clues are nil. It works so well that Interpol does not even feel any need for computers. According to one official: "Once we get someone...
...Soviets also showed a model of their advanced Molniya communications satellite, which in synchronous orbit over Siberia can relay color TV between Moscow and Vladivostok. And Molniya satellites have relayed long-distance phone calls and taken weather pictures of the earth's cloud cover. Molniya was cluttered with so many unlabeled antennas and sensor systems that scientists figured that the satellite was also capable of serving a "spy in the sky" function over...
Next week, if all goes well, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch Mariner 5, a $30 million spacecraft designed to shoot past Venus at a distance of only 2,000 miles and probe the mysteries of the cloud-shrouded planet during its flyby. Whatever its findings, however, Mariner will hardly be able to top the recent accomplishment of astronomers in a plane flying only 37,000 feet above the earth. Using an ingenious scheme and sophisticated equipment, they determined conclusively that Venus is a bone-dry planet devoid of water-and probably devoid of any kind of life...
Developed by General Electric and the Army's Limited War Laboratory, the E63 is based on a phenomenon often demonstrated in high school chemistry classes: if open bottles of ammonia and hydrochloric acid are placed close together, a white cloud of ammonium chloride particles forms above them. These particles serve as nuclei for the condensation of the air's water vapor into tiny, foglike droplets...