From the earth's surface, space has long seemed hardly more than an emptiness between the earth and the stars. But space probers have found that it has a geography as complex as the maze of pipes and conduits under a downtown city street. Last week the Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. reported the discovery of a new and unsuspected duct of ionized particles that leads magnetic waves around the earth.
When the rocket-launched atom bombs of Project Argus were exploded last year 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME,...
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