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... spectrometer science team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson. -end- ''RELEASE: 10-085'' ''FLASH: NASA'S CASSINI SPACECRAFT SEES LIGHTNING ON SATURN'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured ... powerful lightning storms. The movie and radio data suggest extremely powerful storms with lightning that flashes as brightly as the brightest super-bolts on Earth, according to Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini ...

... 's to support a vigorous and balanced space flight program." ''(Transcript)'' Findings that linked light flashes experienced by astronauts in periods of otherwise total darkness to high-speed cosmic rays passing ... Edwin E. Aldrin , Jr., and Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell . Scientists said they saw flashes that differed from visual phenomena associated with x-rays or electrical and magnetic exposures. They ...

... Rosemarie Szostak of Georgetown Univ. for her research in inorganic chemistry. ''(Program)'' Analyses of light flashes seen by crew members of the last Apollo missions, tentatively attributed to cosmic ray nuclei ... Houston and Johnson Space Center scientists in Science magazine. Three kinds of flashes-the spot or star-like flash, the streak, and the cloud-had occurred randomly, with no apparent preference for ...

... event on Jupiter,? Wesley said. Another amateur astronomer, Christopher Go, of Cebu, Philippines, confirmed the flash also appeared in his recordings. Professional astronomers, alerted by email, looked for signs of the ... second fireball on Aug. 20 was first detected by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa. It flashed for about 1.5 seconds and left no debris observable by a large telescope. It ...

... experienced by astronauts in space with eyes closed or in darkened spacecraft. Dr. Berry believed flashes might be produced by heavy cosmic ray particles-atomic nuclei of intermediate weight-that produced ionization in eye retina, affected nervous system, or caused light flashes within eye fluid. Dr. Gazenko said heavy cosmic rays were insufficiently frequent to account for ...

... , when stripped of electrons, would carry multiple positive electric charges. The astronauts had seen the flashes when the spacecraft cabin was dark and they were preparing for sleep. Scientists suspected that ... cosmic ray exposure as Skylab moved away from the poles. During two test periods, light-flash observations of Astronaut William R. Pogue showed a close correlation with exposure variations. (Pinsky et ...

... fireworks is hidden behind a dense disk and envelope of dust. Astronomers propose the light flashes are caused by periodic interactions between two newly formed stars that are binary, or gravitationally ... a surrounding disk. The material ultimately crashes onto one or both stars, which triggers a flash of light that illuminates the circumstellar dust. The system is rare because close binaries account ...

... treasure those few moments that you could take, because a camera malfunctioned. You savor that flash of time when you could think about what was happening. And you recall staring out ... float off). In the total blackness of the sleep box, I began experiencing scintillations (or flashes of light) similar to what is described in the event of a detached retina. Panicking ... space, our eyes are constantly bombarded by these particles, which causes the experience of faint flashing lights. On the third day of our mission, while I was looking out the bay ...

... -man crew for NASA's first manned Apollo spaceflight (AS- 204) died, apparently instantly, when flash fire swept through their Apollo 1 spacecraft mated to an Uprated Saturn I booster 218 ... fire aboard the spacecraft . . ." At T-10 and holding in the countdown, observers saw a "flash fire" break out inside the spacecraft, penetrate its shell, and surround its exterior with smoke ... admitted that "if there is an ignition source . . . in pure oxygen this, of course, has flash-fire potential." His statement that spacecraft was operating on internal power when fire broke out ...

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