European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. January 24, 1986 pages voyager 2 polio los of uranus show the planet us h would appear front 11 million mile Uway Al co a computer enhanced View right show Nam could he smog like pariifli1. Photo problem solved As probe nears uranus Pasadena. Calir. A orders for voyager 2 i final approach to Urana wire radioed i.k4 Bill inn mite to the spacecraft tuesday after . Space Agency engineers fixed a computer problem thai had caused streaks across weekend photographs of the giant plan not. Unprocessed television pictures returned to Earth on tuesday by the space probe showed for the first Lime six of the nine known charcoal Black rings thai encircle the solar system s third largest planet said Ellis Miner Deputy project scientist Al the Jet propulsion Laboratory. Several of i lie rings had been seen previously in computer processed pictures. Bui on tuesday the six outer rings named Epsilon. Delta Gamma Eta Beta and Alpha were clearly visible in raw Pic Tures Miner said. On Friday voyager Wil have its closes encounter with uranus the seventh pan it from he Sun and its rings and Moons flying within 50,600 Miles of the gaseous planet s Cloud tops. On wednesday morning voyager 2 was 1,843,161.696 Miles from Earth and 1,694,738 Miles from uranus streaking to Ward and around the planet Al 40,215 Mali project manager Dick la scr said. He said that a computer program de signed to control voyager 2 s operations during its final approach to inc planet was radioed to the space probe tuesday morn ing by National aeronautics and space a d Smisl ration engineers. Thai takes it up through is final approach he said adding that another Mare critical computer program to operate lie probe during Friday s close encounter was to be radioed to voyager on thursday. Last minute Fine tuning orders May be transmitted after thai he said. The Quality of voyager s photos had been threatened by the failure saturday of an integrated circuit aboard voyager 2, which produced numerous horizontal streaks across the pictures Lac or said. Engineers bypassed the failed circuit and by Early tuesday we were Back bilk As  he said. Before the repair roughly 10 percent to 20 percent of the picture was messed up he said. The computer that had the problem is used to compress Phil Graphie data fur radio transmission to Earth. Voyager 2 s cameras and sensors spent tuesday studying the Structure of the Ura Nian rings and searching fur so called Shep Herd Toons whose gravitational forces Cor ral inc rings into their narrow shapes. The innermost rings which arc numbered and 4 rather than named Are still very difficult to pick out Miner Haid. Scientists have said voyager Nti Ghl discover in Shepherd Moons one on each Side of each ring in addition to the planet s 12 known Moons seven of which were discovered by the probe since Laic december. Voyager on tuesday Aiso studied uranus atmosphere searched to Sec if the plane has n magnetic Field and examined the brightness composition and Structure of the five major Moons which were discovered by telescopes on Earth tilapia. Ariel. Us Briel Oberon and Miranda. Or gets 5-year Ferm in plot to ship arms to Orlando Fla. A a 103 publisher who is an expert on East bloc countries tuesday was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on charges he conspired to ship army weapons to Iran. Paul Culler. 48, of san Jose culif., was convicted dec. 16 on one count of conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud. . District court judge a Sharp sentenced it Lojiw Yiirs on the conspiracy  years probation to rus  on each of the wire fraud counts. Gutter was convicted with an inter a Crand a company that Cut Ter conlrols.5hffifijlbicuucr1s com Pany european do it s100,000. Although auth rated that it  unable so path luring a six week jury trial Cutter who also owns Eda publishing co., was described As the Mastermind of a plot to obtain 1,140 army anti tank weapons for shipment to Iran in it War against Iraq. Arms dealer Charles is. Claire 52, of Granada Hills calif., was convicted on the same charges will be Sec Sci u _ rated a Cutter employee Raman born woman and her la Bancic my and an iranian citizen. Shufu  attorney Jay Stevens said Cutter s conviction. He has been held without Bond since his arrest in Orlando last j Illy 31. Fudy urges major realignment of . Military forces Lyric Washington us l a cat inn military by cutting Back nuclear and naval Milf increasing army and air Force strength would improve performance and save s233 billion by 1990, a study released tuesday said. But Congress would have to accede to the plan and inter service rivalry would have to end for the hypothetical . Military Force to become reality said the study s author William Kaufman a faculty member at the John f. Kennedy school of govern men at Harvard University. Jas a tilled a reasonable defense irks a Flyge paper and Pencil exercise for the jbntfnne5 institution criticized inc  the a year $1 trillion Reagan adm Imit Tonais buildup As a helter shelter plaids Iii of ii unifying strategy. The study appeared As a budget balancing Law forced inc Pentagon to slash si3.3 billion from this years s2s9.5 billion budget and As debate Over defense spend ing was certain to intensify in Congress because of the 2_w s mandate to trim the deficit. Built a Model of . Nuclear and convention War strategic and medium Rane nuclear forces. 33 lit stat i Larmy  Giff instead of 78 air Force fight cars