European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 8, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5nasa releases voyager s views of planets Washington a Nasa on wednesday released an extraordinary x View of the solar system showing jux of the nine planets As they appear Fri fanic viewed from 3.8 billion Miles a blues Dot in an Ocean of blackness. A on that Blue Dot that a where everyone you know everyone you Ever heard of every human being who Ever lived lived out their life a said astronomer Carl Sagan. He called Earth a a very Small stage in a great cosmic arena.�?�. The photograph actually a mosaic of 64 images taken in a 4-hour Pend was the hot from the voyager 1 spacecraft As it wed toward the Edge of the solar system. The pictures were recorded feb. 1314 but were not played Back to Earth until late March because deep space radio receivers were occupied with higher priority tasks. The camera looked Down trom 32 degrees above the so called ecliptic plane the track in which most of the planets orbit the Sun. It captured Neptune uranus Saturn Jupiter Earth and Venus. Mars was washed out by the Sun Mercury was too close to the Sun to be photographed and Pluto was too far away and too Small to appear. The twin spacecraft voyager 1 and voyager 2, were launched by Nasa in August and september 1977 from Cape canaveral Fla. Between them they explored All the giant outer planets of the solar system 48 of their Moons and the systems of rings and magnetic Fields of those planets. Edward Stone of the California Institute of technology chief scientist on the voyager project said he expected the voyagers to leave the solar system and cruise into interstellar space in 20002010. Voyager 1 is heading outward at a rate of nearly a million Miles a Day. Sagan was asked what had been Learned from the voyagers that would change descriptions of the solar system published in encyclopedias in 1975. Is s a s x \ a s  a a v iss a is. 3 a. It it \ a it >4c \ v. V a the images of six planets photographed by voyager 1, which was 4 billion Miles from Earth. A i would say you would simply tear them up a he replied. Stone said the greatest discovery was that to a Moon circling Jupiter had Active volcanoes a the first such discovery on another body in the solar system. The voyagers together observed nine volcanic eruptions on to. Jupiter a great red spot was shown by the close encounters to be a Complex storm system. Stone showed a time lapse video that clearly showed other storms melding into the spot and of storms circling the planet moving in opposite directions. The spacecraft photos also showed that Saturn has a red spot one third the size of Jupiter a. Stone said Neptune had winds of 700 mph at the Equator and that the magnetic Field of Jupiter extends up to 5 million Miles out from the planet. Pentagon plans $4 billion arms Sale to saudis by Susanne m. Schafer a military writer Washington a the Bush administration has informed Congress that it intends to sell saudi Arabia More than $4 billion Worth of Light armoured vehicles Tow anti tank missiles and modernization packages for five Azacs surveillance planes the Pentagon said wednesday. If Congress does no to object within 30 Days the sales would be allowed to go through. In the formal Prentice period during which the proposed arms sales were made known to members of Congress no objections were raised by lawmakers. The saudis military Arsenal is largely , although the desert kingdom concluded a $30 billion Multi year Deal with British companies several years ago for fighter planes and other weapons. The largest of three separate packages announced by Columbia must be returned to hangar to fix fuel leak the defense department carries a $3.4 billion Price tag and is destined to support the saudi National guard the Pentagon said. That package includes 1,117 Light armoured vehicles 2,000 anti tank missiles 116 Tow missile launchers 27 m-198 155mm howitzers ammunition support equipment the design and construction of ranges and maintenance facilities for the equipment and . Government and contractor management training logistical and technical support Tor the items the statement said. The armoured vehicle carries a 25mm automatic Cannon and a machine gun. It is used by the . Marines primarily As a reconnaissance vehicle As a troop Carrier or As a Light armoured command and control Center. The other two packages include a a $600 million modification and modernization program for five airborne warning and control system surveillance aircraft and eight Ke-3 Tanker aircraft to improve their Mission navigation engine and aircraft Protection systems. The Pentagon said the systems were necessary for a common configuration with similar . Aircraft. The planes were the subject of a bruising Battle in Congress in 1981 Over the introduction of such sophisticated aircraft into the volatile Mideast Region. A a $26 million Sale of 12 m88-a1 recovery vehicles with additional weapons and equipment including 12 m-2 .50-caliber machine guns spare and repair parts. The Sale augments an earlier Sale of nine such vehicles which Are heavily armoured and designed to Tow damaged tanks or other tracked vehicles from the Battlefield. Cape canaveral Fla. Apr the space shuttle Columbia will be returned to a hangar to repair a fuel leak indefinitely delaying its launch with an Astro Observatory Nasa said wednesday. The announcement came after a Hy-,8�n teak reappeared during a test r j11 run lately it we done to like what we found launch director Bob Sieck said it s Good that we found it but its in Torix fit at to s t0 an Impact wednesdays test in which liquid by Rogen was pumped into Columbia con red leak in a tight cavity Between o Metal plates that connect the orbiter and an external tank Sieck said. Wave her t0 fax anything in this area e re going to have to de mate the orbiter from the tank a he said. Sieck declined to estimate when Columbia might be Able to lift off. Nasa officials have said it will take about a month to make the repairs. Columbian a return to the hangar will take place sometime next week he said. Last weeks scheduled launch was scrubbed when the leak was discovered As Columbia was being loaded with liquid Hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The Mission already was two weeks late because of Cooling system repairs. The Astro Mission is one of six remaining shuttle flights scheduled for 1990. Meanwhile preparations for a secret military flight by the shuttle Atlantis in july will continue As planned Sieck  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 8, 1950 a Gen. Douglas Macarthur ordered 17 editors of the japanese communist newspaper Okahata removed for calling for a nationwide general strike to protest the ban on 24 communist party leaders.30 years ago today. June 8, 1960 a fire broke out in a crowded Manhattan subway Tunnel near new Yorkus grand Central station raging for 90 minutes while train crewmen and Rescue workers led hundreds of passengers to safety. Officials said 127 people had been admitted to hospitals with smoke inhalation.20 years ago today. June 8, 1970 a some 1,000 Flag waving marchers converged on the Arkansas Capitol Steps in Little Rock for a rally supporting . Involvement in Southeast asia.10 years ago today. June 8, 1980 a several members of the Senate armed services committee called for an investigation into the leak in the Iran hostage Rescue attempt