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- Mars is more moonlike than Earthlike. The pictures showed 70 clearly distinguishable craters ranging in diameter from three miles to 75 miles; a few appeared to be rimmed with frost. If the Mariner sampling is representative, Mars may have at least 10,000 craters of the size shown in the...
Question of Endurance. The purpose of the MOL project is to investigate the problems of manned space voyages that may last as long as two months. A pressurized cylinder about the size of a small house trailer, 10 ft. in diameter and 20 to 30 ft. long, the MOL would...
Near Guaymas, Mexico, McDivitt fired four retrorockets, each with a 2,500-lb. kick, to put the slowly spinning cabin into the proper trajectory. At 400,000 ft., the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere, and communications, as expected, went out in the intense heat of friction. In his last garbled...
The hot plumes of steam and ash that rise from many volcanoes are often shot through with brilliant lightning flashes. But these violent bursts of electricity are usually blamed on conventional thunderclouds pushed up by the heat of the eruption. Curious to learn whether a volcano can make its own...
The mosaics represent Homeric scenes, Theseus raping Helen, warlike Amazons and two centaurs, one of them curiously a woman. But the most intriguing discovery to date is a large circular structure built about 2,300 years ago. Perhaps a shrine, it is 100 ft. in diameter and is surrounded by...