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...electricity could cause millions of cancer deaths. Most scientists and doctors scoff at such claims. Any plutonium vaporized in an accident, they explain, would be so diluted in the atmosphere that it would pose no real threat to most people. Still, activists say, had Cassini been equipped with solar panels for electricity, all danger could have been averted. But Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and the solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen...
...electricity could cause millions of cancer deaths. Most scientists and doctors scoff at such claims. Any plutonium vaporized in an accident, they explain, would be so diluted in the atmosphere that it would pose no real threat to most people. Still, activists say, had Cassini been equipped with solar panels for electricity, all danger could have been averted...
...Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets...
...earth from its rays. And hundreds of millions of people from England to India dropped everything to behold the power -? most evident by its absence -? of the star?s light. Even as thick cloud obscured many in Britain and Western Europe from a clear view of the last solar eclipse of the millennium, the masses crowding beaches, city streets and autobahns felt the awesome minutes of daytime darkness as a profound, collective moment. "We were under a total cloud," said British astronomer Patrick Moore. "(But) the drop in light and temperature was quite amazing, and the rise...
...moon was more than just "Kilroy was here" egoism. Over the course of the half a dozen landing missions, the astronauts pried loose and carried home 838.2 lbs. of lunar rocks, providing Earthbound scientists with rare tissue samples of a nearby body whose geological origins mirror the solar system's own. Priceless as the artifacts were, however, in the days of Apollo, geology was always trumped by poetry, and everybody within the space community knew...