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... person spends his days outdoors, exposed to light from the Sun (filtered through the ozone layer), including a small but important amount of mid- and near-ultraviolet light. This ambient light ... of all the fauna and the flora across the planet. Extensive holes in the ozone layer observed in the past two decades coupled with the evidence of increased mutation among some ... the crew. However, the permanent habitats of the Mars base can be covered with thick layers of soil to provide full-time radiation protection, so nearly all the crew’s radiation ...

... if a rendezvous is not hurried, the task should be relatively simple . . . . “A smog-appearing layer was evident during the fourth pass while I was in drifting flight on the night side, almost at 32° South latitude. I would say that this layer represented about a quarter of the field of view out of the window, and this surprised me... Seeing the stars below the glowing layer was probably the biggest surprise I had during the flight. ''(NASA SP-12, Results of ...

... from above and below into thin cloud-like layers, causing Sporadic-E layers that often interfere with radio signals' being reflected off higher F layer of ionosphere. ''(GSFC Release)'' In letter to 'Speaker ...

... article that Leonov's spacesuit consisted of five layers: a heat reflecting layer outside; material for strength; airtight material; heat insulating material; and an inside layer containing a ventilation system. The "chief theoretician ...

... the terrestrial globe and of the twilight aureole taken by VOSTOK VI revealed two turbid layers in the stratosphere, Prof. Georgiy Rozenberg was reported in National Zeitung as saying at a ... that sulphuric oxide emitted by volcanoes played an important role in the formation of the layers, He concluded that the colored luminescense following major volcanic outbreaks was related to this phenomenon ...

... in the atmosphere by about 15 per cent, MacDonald estimated. The carbon dioxide created a layer of gas that allowed heat from the sun to reach the earth but stopped it ... earth. This was the "greenhouse effect," which raised the temperature below the layer and lowered the temperature above the layer. "Four hundred supersonic aircraft flying four flights a day on intercontinental routes ...

... microscopic tektites from the bottom of earth's seas, and the volcanic appearance of some layered tektites caused the change in ideas. (Goddard News, July 76, 3) Calling the Landsat photographs ... the new generation of fighter aircraft. Another environmental-safety hardware item was a new 9-layer 25-mm windshield for planes to overcome the bird-strike problem, in place of the ...

... ) long he had brought from moon contained 55 separate layers of soil that illustrated last 2.4 billion yrs of lunar history. Layers, discovered through x-ray examination, would show changes occurring ... surface. Later, in telephone interview with Washington Post, LRL scientist Dr. John F. Lindsay said layers ranged in thickness from 12.7 mm (1/2 in) to 127 mm (5 in ...

... .8 ft) in diameter were millions of years younger. Study of lunar terrain showed many layers. Outer layer, from 0.2 to 0.5 mm (0.008 to 0.02 in), was ... heat conductivity, which resulted in sharp temperature fluctuations on lunar surface within half hour. Denser layer beneath was strong enough to sustain weight of Lunokhod 1 . Nepoklonov, scientific leader of Lunokhod ...

... Hawaii, and General Dynamics Corp. that moon had been subdivided into layers by process somewhat similar to that which produced layering within earth. Conclusion had been reached after analysis of tremors induced ... simultaneously at MIT, where Dr. Frank Press, coauthor of report, told press that separation into layers, some 3.3 billion yrs ago, had brought so much radioactive material close to lunar ...

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