THE MOON’S SURFACE
STUDY OF IRREGULARITIES SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES LONDON, Jan. 2. Calculations showed that it should be possible to get radio echoes from the moon, and so study the irregularities in its surface,” said Sir Edward Appleton, secretary of the Department of Scientific Research, lecturing at the Physical Society’s exhibition. Similarly it was planned to use the more delicate equipment available to study abnormal emissions from the sun during the coming period of maximum sunspot activity. Powerful radar transmitters would be used to attempt to radiolocate cosmic ray bursts in the atmosphere, and the trails of meteorites. The war-time development of radar was likely to repay handsomely its debt to pure science, from which it was derived.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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