Nov 4 1962
From The Space Library
Soviet news agency Tass reported MARS I probe was 606,000 mi. from earth (at 4:00 PM EST) and was increasing that distance by 215,000 mi. a day. Soviet observatories photographed the Mars probe and its carrier rocket on Nov. 3; director of Crimean Astrophysical Observatory said this was the first time moving artificial interplanetary bodies had been photographed from earth.
Soviet press agency Tass reported the planet Mars has "experienced the effects of meteorites to a much greater degree than the earth." Emblen Sobotovich, senior scientist at Leningrad Radium Institute, said meteorites were preserved on Mars for long periods of time because Martian atmosphere contained almost no moisture, Tass reported.
High-altitude nuclear explosion over Johnston Island ended current U.S. atmospheric test series. President Kennedy announced that underground testing in Nevada would continue, and added: "I hope that in the next months we can conclude an effective test ban treaty, so that the world can be free from all testing. . . . We shall devote our best efforts to conclude such a treaty and hope all others will do the same." AEC announced U.S.S.R. conducted atmospheric nuclear test with intermediate-range yield.
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