TO PLOT SOLAR STORMS.—This 32in-dish Stanford Cross radio telescope at Stanford, California, tended by solar observation technicians, is plotting impending solar storms. The findings will be a guide for the scheduled launching, before Christmas, of Apollo astronauts to orbit the moon. The 10ft discs pick up solar radio signals that will he Ip in deciding when the space travellers may safely leave the protection of the earth’s atmosphere.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31856, 7 December 1968, Page 23
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68TO PLOT SOLAR STORMS.—This 32in-dish Stanford Cross radio telescope at Stanford, California, tended by solar observation technicians, is plotting impending solar storms. The findings will be a guide for the scheduled launching, before Christmas, of Apollo astronauts to orbit the moon. The 10ft discs pick up solar radio signals that will he Ip in deciding when the space travellers may safely leave the protection of the earth’s atmosphere. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31856, 7 December 1968, Page 23
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