European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday August 27.1989 voyager beams pinkish photos of Triton Pasadena Calif. Up the atrium Phanel voyager 2 space probe zoomed past ringed Neptune and beamed Back flyby photos of its strange Moon Triton Friday showing the ancient remnants of slowly flowing ice volcanoes and a tortured terrain dusted with Frozen natural Gas. As the hard working robot raced past Neptune and then Triton it looked Back and photographed the pinkish Moon As a thin Crescent almost As if bidding Farewell to the known solar system after an epic once in a lifetime grand tour of the outer planets. Even though voyager has explored dozens of new worlds in the outer solar system i think without a question the images of Triton returned this morning revealed a world unlike any we have Ever seen voyager project scientist Edward Stone said. Voyager 2 darted a scant 3,000 Miles Over Neptune s frigid Cloud tops at 8 56 . Thursday plunging Over the North Ern Polar Region and dropping behind the planet As seen from Earth in the space Craft s fourth and final planetary flyby since launch from Florida on aug. 20,1977. The i ton nuclear powered spacecraft blowing through Neptune s magnetic Field hit a top Speed of about 61,150 Mph at close approach and sailed Back into View about 55 minutes later. While it was be Hind the planet the probe carried out a critical radio Experiment to learn More about Neptune s atmosphere. But four hours later. Voyager 2 streaked past Triton which stole the show in a Clear highlight of the Neptune encounter. We have now seen voyager s last planetary object Triton As the space Craft begins its journey into interstellar space said voyager geologist Laurence Soderblom. All we can say now is wow. What a Way to leave the solar  images beamed Back from voyager 2 showed an alien landscape with Polar ice Caps presumably made up of solid methane or nitrogen Long intersecting ridges or cracks in the icy surface fro zen lakes in ancient Calderas and the re Mains of ice volcanoes that once oozed Slushy liquids. We have Complex geology we have Polar ices we have Peculiar chemistry we have Haze and we have an Atmo sphere Soderblom said. For planetary geology this is the end of the beginning not the beginning of the  pictures of Triton showed features so Derblom compared with volcanic Caldy Ras on Rocky planets like Venus and Mars. Material has risen and collapsed with in the Flat areas at different Levels just As lava rises and collapses to differing Levels on volcanoes but Triton s surface temperature is several Hundred degrees below Zero. De cause of Neptune s vast distance radio signals travelling 186.000 Miles per second required four hours and six min utes to Span the Gulf from voyager 2 to Earth keeping Mission controllers at the Jet propulsion Laboratory constantly out of step with actual events. Hundreds of scientists. Vips journalists and space activists maintained an All night Vigil sharing in the wonder As voyager 2 stripped away the veils of mystery shroud ing dim Triton in the far reaches of the solar system. Early Friday More than four hours after the fact a series of spectacular super Sharp Black and White photos of Teton was received at the Jet propulsion Laboratory that prompted normally understated scientists to use words like bizarre strange and  dealers from Page 1 each diplomatic and government sources said. They said it . Determination to help latin Ameri Ca fight drug traffickers. Brazil said it had tightened Security on its Border with Colombia to prevent narcotics dealers from crossing it and Brazi Lian Justice minister Saulo Ramos pledged his country would do everything possible to help Colombia in its War on the drug dealers. A colombian defense ministry com Munique said Friday the army was continuing raids on the property of suspected traffickers and on suspected cocaine smuggling Sites nationwide. It said two tons of the drug were seized in a raid thursday on a Clandes Tine Airstrip and that the offensive so far has netted six tons of cocaine bringing the total confiscated so far this year to 2" tons nine tons More than was confiscated in All of last year. Since aug. 16. When Bogota Magis trate Carlos Valencia Garcia was gunned Down judges nationwide have been pro testing for Butler Security. They staged a strike that ended wednesday although 48 Bogota judges then refused to withdraw their letters of resignation. The supreme court rejected the .48 resignations thursday. The country s 32-year-old Justice min ister Monica do a Naff showed signs of growing fear for her personal safety. I was t prepared to work in times of War such As now she said in a television interview Friday. Bogota was Rife with rumours that she was considering re signing but her office refused  Grieff is known to be a target for traffickers death threats. A predecessor Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was assassinated by the drug Cartel in 1984. The Day after Valencia s assassination gunmen believed hired by traffickers killed the National police commander in Medellin a trafficking Center and presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan at apolitical rally on Bogota s outskirts. The killings outraged colombian society and the government responded with emergency decrees empowering the seizure of traffickers property and re Newing the extradition of drug Barons to the United  government has raided More than 700 Sites nationwide and important drug suspects have been caught although top Cartel leaders have . And colombian authorities arc known to be working on the extradition to the United slates of alleged drug Moncy launderer Eduardo Martinez Romero. Thousands of students wearing Black armbands paraded Friday through Down town Bogota to Galan s  another development an israeli re serve officer reportedly involved entraining death squads for colombian drug lords denied that Friday saying he served As an instructor for a group of cattlemen fighting leftist guerrillas. I trained a group of Farmers who de fended themselves against terrorism organizations mostly the group called m-19, a guerrilla group with the goal of turning Colombia into Cuba or Nicara Gua la. Col. Yair Klein said. Clowning around presidential grandchildren Sam Leblond saluting and Pebble Bush Clown around in front of a Marine helicopter at Kennebunkport Maine during Depar Ture ceremonies for danish prime min ister Poul Schluter and his wife. Premier. I run prom Pena 1 signal  from Page i hej4njkimeorafonhuman rights. Tot1� sa�1iws,.bsmminislricsordcru.s. Sens. Dennis Deconcini of Anzor  the new prime minister thursday said he planned to a poke ,. Hashme crack curtailed second flight of b-2 Lautenburg of new Jersey and . Rep. Jim assemble a Cabinet within the next week and will seek Moody of Wisconsin. Participation , All parties in parliament he did not say astlft�thwlw3crnocrats, represent Ojei Drew How Many posts would go to each but Solidarity has signal Commilee Jujj Turt Jiuu  with the promised the communists they will retain control of the Ini series of defense and in prior which control the army Edwards fab Calif. A the second test flight of the b-2 stealth bomber was scrubbed in Midnight be cause of a crack in a part provided by a defense contractor once fined for Billing fraud air Force officials said. A hairline crack in a casing of an accessory drive which Powers the $530 million High tech Jet s generators and controls caused Oil pressure to drop Dur ing the aug. 16 test flight air Force capt. Toss Taft said. It was t anything critical that would have caused the plane to crash she said. It was a minor  the flight of the Bat Wing bomber de signed to pass through enemy radar undetected was scheduled to last up to four hours but was halted after about one hour. The casing for the aircraft s no. I accessory drive was made by Sundstrand aviation of Rockford Iii. Which Penta gon officials indefinitely suspended last year from doing business with the government. Sundstrand was fined $115 million in october for overcharging the govern ment for parts and Billing the Pentagon for baby sitting costs country club due Sand executive servants. The suspension did not affect con tracts the company already had including the one for the b-2 casings. Sundstrand spokesman Claude ver non said he would not comment the pan was redesigned to make in thicker after Laboratory tests indicated inc casing would work belter if strength ened. Tan said. There s absolutely nothing wrong with the part As originally designed she said. Things  officials for Northrop corp., which builds the b-2, said the thinner casings measuring four feet Long one foot wide and five inches thick were examined and cleared As airworthy. We would l put anything in there that we thought was potentially defective said Nothrop s b-2 spokesman Tony Cantafio. Air Force engineers continue to work with designers from Northrop Sund strand and other subcontractors through out the b-2 construction process and were fully aware of the modifications made to thicken the casing Taft said. Cantafio and Taft both said they were unaware of any plan to replace the thin Ner parts before the b-2 s next test flight. The government has spent about $22.4 billion on the b-2 program which is 18 months behind schedule and c9n Gross has walked at the thought of paying More than $500 million apiece for 132 bombers. The Pentagon wants $4.7 billion for the bomber in the coming fiscal year and it May need $8 billion in each of the three years of Peak production 1992 to 1994