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... editorials and articles about space flight. His books included ''Assault on the Moon'', ''To The Red Planet'', ''Pioneer Venus'', ''An Introduction to Rockets and Spaceflight'',''Outpost on Apollo's Moon'', ''Flight to Mercury'', ''By Jupiter'', ''Far Encounter the Neptune System'', ''Return to the Red Planet'', ''Venus an Errant Twin'', ''Uranus and Neptune the Distant Twins'', and ''Celestial Basic - Astronomy ...

... said that the observed decrease in red blood cells during the Skylab missions was not because of red-cell destruction but rather a slowdown of the red-cell production. "We seem to have stumbled on a way in which red blood cell production is suppressed ...

... the Florida Department of Natural Resources (FDNR). Caused by an ocean-borne phytoplankton, Gymnodinium breve, "red tide" had left thousands of dead fish rotting on beaches in coastal estuaries. Ocean-color ... , to warn of changes in concentration and species of marine phytoplankton populations and indicate possible red-tide invasions. Research vessels would verify the findings by on-site sampling. Program managers hoped ...

... long-range, space-assisted program to develop an "early warning system" for the onset of red tide, an ocean-borne organism that had left tons of dead fish rotting on beaches ... that might indicate changes in concentration and species of marine phytoplankton, especially the red-tide dinoflagellate Gymnodinium breve. Red tide had been a major problem because of oxygen depletion in ocean water ... the organism. Shellfish beds affected had been closed for months by authorities. An outbreak of red tide in 1971 had cost the state of Fla. more than $20 million in lost ...

... the Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 photographs, but not as red as the surface at Chryse. The red color resulted from oxidation of iron in the Martian soil, which had an iron ... at Utopia resulted from the presence of water, which would wash out some of the redness by forming hydrates or sulfates with other minerals in the soil. (W Post, 8 Sept ...

... , A4) Scientists at the McDonald Observatory in Los Alamos, N.M., had discovered that the red-giant star Betelgeuse; familiar feature of the constellation Orion, was 3 250 000 times larger ... raw material for making new stars, according to astrophysicist Maxwell Sandford of McDonald laboratory. The red giants would routinely lose matter to relieve internal pressures built up by consumption of nuclear ...

... -world's most powerful comsat-had turned into an actual emergency operation providing communications between Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., and flood stricken Johnstown, Pa. ComSatCorp and the ... experiment to demonstrate emergency use of satellites in natural disasters; the Texas results had led Red Cross officials to ask for assistance in the actual emergency at Johnstown. The Cts equipment ... could use the Cts link to communicate with relatives around the U.S. when the Red Cross was not using the lines. The emergency had preempted Canadian and U.S. experiments ...

... Viking probes of the 1970s had likewise indicated that Mars is not red, but rather yellowish-brown. However, Mars appears red to the naked eye from Earth, and the Hubble Space Telescope ( HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST ) data had indicated that Mars is red. The scientists reported that the detailed analysis using Pathfinder data had revealed that the HUBBLE ...

... Carolina. His hometown is Wakulla, North Carolina. Married to the former Cynthia Kathryn Lovin of Red Springs, North Carolina. They have two daughters and three grandchildren. He enjoys walking, photography and ... William S. McArthur and Mrs. Edith P. Avant, are deceased. Education Graduated from Red Springs High School, Red Springs, North Carolina, in 1969; received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied science ...

... escaped the notice of investigators trying to learn if liquid water once pooled on the Red Planet." Scientists conduct field experiments in desert regions because the extremely dry conditions are similar ... at Ames investigated carbonate rocks coated with iron oxides collected in a location called Little Red Hill in the Mojave Desert. "When we examined the carbonate rocks in the lab, it ... evident that an iron oxide skin may be hindering the search for clues to the Red Planet's hydrological history," McKay said. "We found that the varnish both altered and partially ...

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