Word: solarized
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Another major gas turbine maker is San Diego's Solar Aircraft Co., which was bought this year by International Harvester Co. Solar turns out four series of gas turbines, including the 1,100-h.p. Saturn, which is the power plant aboard the giant "Overland Train," now being developed by R. G. Le Tourneau Inc. for the U.S. Army...
...calmly began to receive, store and spew back a stream of voice and Teletype messages sent up from the earth. Courier 1B is a 51-in.. 500-lb. sphere containing 300 lbs. of electronic apparatus. Developed by the Army Signal Corps, its surface is spangled with 19,152 solar cells, which look like bluish safety-razor blades and generate 62 watts when the sun is shining on them. The power can be used immediately or stored for future use in batteries...
...miles the Russians found no measurable ions, and Shklovsky believes that true interplanetary space has little or no resident gas. One possibility is that the streams of high-energy particles that shoot out of the sun (and probably cause the earth's Van Allen radiation belt) sweep the solar system clean of any gas that leaks into...
...earth's corona, Astrophysicist Shklovsky reasons, is mostly hydrogen which came originally from the earth's oceans. Water vapor works its way up from the lower atmosphere. When it reaches about 60 miles, its molecules are broken into oxygen and hydrogen by solar radiation. The hydrogen, being lighter, tends to rise, and above about 1,000 miles it becomes the main constituent of the atmosphere. Some of its molecules get hot enough and move fast enough to reach escape velocity and leave the earth entirely. Moscow's Professor Shklovsky believes that enough hydrogen has escaped in this...
Liller also dwelled on some of the oddities and paradoxes of planets, in addition to debunking popular conceptions. Mercury, the smallest planet, has both the highest and lowest temperature in the solar system. While temperatures on the side of Mercury that always faces the sun rise to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, the dark side (only 50 degrees above absolute zero) is colder than Pluto, the furthermost planet from...