National Geographic January-June 1985 (fél évfolyam) [antikvár]

irriwsiii^ii'i-i, Two decades of planetary exploration have brought stunning surprises —from the discovery of Pluto's moon to huge volcanoes on Venus — that, like Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons, fill us with "no small rapture." In a time exposure of the revolving sky, Hawaii's Mauna Kea observatories stand between Mauna Loa's volcanic glow and Jupiter's streaking light, bolder than the star paths. By RICK GORE NATIONAL OEOORAPHIC SENIOR WRITER DALE P. CRUIK4HANK ON JUNE 11, 1983, at 9:53 a.m. a i distant siren could be heard in I the village of Patuk on Java. Moments later, Asmo Wiyono began to strike the kentongan, the hand-carved, wooden chime-like alarm that hangs near his thatch home. Usually the kentongan warns villagers of thieves or erupting volcanoes. This day it signaled the onset of the gerhana matahari—Java's first total eclipse of the sun in a century. This is my first total eclipse as well. I have come to Java for the poetry and symbolism this most basic of solar system phenomena promises. It will also inaugurate a mission. For years, as a journalist, I have been reporting on our exploration of the planets. Over the past two decades we, the human race, have landed our machines on the moon, Mars, and Venus. We have braved