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 | | The program was called Project Mogul, and its goal, set by a postwar America wary of losing its atomic monopoly, was to search high in the atmosphere for weak reverberations from nuclear-test blasts half a world away. |
 | | Later it pioneered the use of polyethylene balloons, which today remain an important tool of high-altitude research because their transparency lessens solar heating and the up at-day, down-at-night cycle that such heating imposes on balloons. |
 | | Operationally it was a nightmare, but scientifically it was a great success, Dr. Charles B. Moore, Mogul's project engineer and now an emeritus professor of atmospheric physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, in Socorro, said in an interview. |
| muller.lbl.gov /teaching/Physics10/Roswell/NYTimesMogul.html (1064 words) |
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