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...danger is so great, say the critics, that Cassini must be stopped. Last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ran newspaper ads calling Cassini a "nuclear experiment in space" and claiming that NASA has failed to consider safer power sources like solar cells. The group is planning rallies at the U.N., at the White House and, on Oct. 4, at Cape Canaveral in an effort to get Cassini canceled...
Question 2: My Expository Writing teacher is clearly an explorer or robotic probe from another solar system. During my last essay conference, he justified my C-plus on a paper about Mark Twain with the fact that, in Armenian, there is no word for "Slurpee." What can I do to escape...
...addition, scientists have begun to get a better understanding of the sun's magnetic properties, which may hold the answer to what generates solar storms. While Earth's north and south magnetic poles have remained in place for the past 30,000 years, the sun's poles flip-flop every 11 years--so that the needles of any would-be solar compasses would swing 180[degrees]. The reversal is preceded by a kind of magnetic sparkling across the sun's surface--as if it were suddenly the site of millions of toy magnets, each with its own poles...
...sparkling, in fact, gives rise to the sun's periodic magnetic storms, an activity that reaches a peak with the 11-year polar shifts. Huge pockets of gases form on the sun's surface, accompanied by sunspots, solar flares and great eruptions of gas. While this phenomenon has seemed to be limited to the sun's surface, the new probing shows that the magnetic storms are apparently stirred up by the shearing action of the winds as they press past slower moving gases, just as the eruptions of volcanoes on Earth are produced by the pressures created by motions...
...bolster its solar-observing efforts, NASA last week launched another solar satellite--this one to measure the properties of the high-energy particles ("solar wind") blowing out from the star. That was good news to many scientists who feared that, for budget reasons, the space agency might pull the plug on its existing solar observatory. "One way or another, we will keep it operating," vows NASA official George Withbroe. A good thing too, since solar storms are expected to reach another peak in the year 2000 or 2001. Stay tuned--if your power remains...