European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes sunday August 19,1990 Craft Circle Pasadena Calif. Apr Magellan sent information to Earth on saturday to help engineers learn Why they temporarily lost Contact with the spacecraft after its first pictures of Venus displayed quake faults volcanic cinder Cones and Plains made of lava Hows. A after steady Contact with the spacecraft was re established Friday night engineers commanded the spacecraft to transmit All of the information in its computer memories Back to Earth. This will continue throughout the weekend a said Mary Beth Murrill a spokeswoman for nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory. She said it might take Days to figure out Why Magellan lost Contact with Earth on thursday night after it sent Back its first test pictures of Venus a images that had scientists marvelling. A the radar works far better than we Ever dreamed it would Quot said Steve Saunders Magellan a chief scientist. A the kind of faulting we Sec would certainly mean there Are Venus  the pictures will be released tuesday the National aeronautics and space administration said in a statement issued Friday night. Before the problem developed Magellan was scheduled to Start its formal mapping Mission aug. 29, using its radar to peer through Venus thick Clouds Murrill said a delay is Likely but engineers Haven to yet announced their plans. On saturday engineers continued the process of returning Magellan to Normal operation. It lost touch with Earth for almost 15 hours starting thursday night then continued to go in and out of radio Contact Over the next eight hours. A computer command sent to Magellan on Friday restored steady radio  we jumped up and clapped a said Tommy Thompson Magellan science operations manager a aft was just like the Home team scoring a  Thompson said engineers expected to remain in touch with Magellan except when it swings behind Venus. During that part of the spacecrafts orbit it normally is unable to Send or receive signals from Earth As of saturday the two planets were 147 million Miles apart. Engineers will spend the coming Days diagnosing the cause of the communications breakdown and deciding How to prevent it from happening again Thompson added. Magellan was deployed May 4, 1989 from the space shuttle Atlantis on its $744 million Mission to make the Best maps and pictures yet of Venus the spaceship went into orbit around Venus on aug. 10 after a looping 948-Mil i Ion mile voyage. Less detailed radar pictures of Venus from other . And soviet spacecraft and from a radio Telescope at Arecibo puerto Rico revealed signs of faults on Venus and also found tens of thousands of volcanoes although scientists still done to know if any Are Active. Magellan a first pictures showed in much better detail regions that Are intensely faulted and there were also a Clear indications a lot of Plains Are old lava flows fractured by younger faults Saunders said. A what Wco re seeing is some of the lava flows that came out of Large volcanoes but we Haven t seen any Large volcanoes yet Quot he added. Saunders said volcanic cinder Cones in the pictures have craters on lop and the Cones Range from three fifths of a mile to a mile wide. Their height has t yet been calculated. Magellan project manager Tony Spear discusses the spacecrafts problem. Magellan must pass Over the same area twice to detect landscape changes that would indicate volcanoes Are erupting. It takes 243 Earth Days for Venus to spin once beneath the nearly Polar orbiting Magellan so it will be at least eight months until Magellan will be Able to look for signs of Active volcanoes. When Magellan first lost Contact with Earth on thursday night its sophisticated computer programs automatically put it into a protective state of Semi hibernation called a a a Saemg Mode Quot turning its solar panels to the Sun to make sure it Drew adequate Power Laboratory spokesman Jim Doyle said. Magellan automatically entered an even deeper hibernation Friday mom ing a shutting Down crucial systems to protect them but also making the space Craft Start rotating As it beamed radio signals into space. That action assured that some of the signals would reach Earth but also meant radio Contact was intermittent throughout the Day. The command sent Friday night stopped the rotation and kept Magellan a secondary Antenna pointed toward Earth to maintain Contact. Communication through the secondary Antenna is slower than through Magellan a main Antenna. But the secondary Antenna broadcasts a much broader Cone shaped radio beam allowing Contact to be maintained More easily. Nasa said controllers will switch Back to the main Antenna sometime next week. Magellan a radio signals arc tracked by 230-foot-Widc, dish antennas at Gola Stone Calif., and in Australia and  of suicide device says he May help others Detroit apr the creator of a suicide device who gained National attention when he used it to help an alzheimer a disease patient end her own life said saturday that he May defy a court ban and help others die. A if a person is beyond Hope what do i care about any court injunction Quot or. Jack Kevorkian said by Telephone from his Royal Oak apartment about 15 Miles North of Detroit. Quot if a patient is really needing it i May have to act. If nothing else out of human  his statement saturday appears to reverse what he has maintained since the injunction june 8 when he said Quot pm out of  he said he stalked with two Michigan women who want to die a one he described Only As Quot crippled Quot the other w Ith an extreme Case of emphysema. Kevorkian said he has checked with the women a doctors on the diagnoses,1 and he has met with the family of one of them. He had met with the family of Janet Adkins before deciding to use his device in his Van at a county Park on june 4. The machine and his 1968 Volkswagen Van were confiscated after Adkins 54, of Portland ore., pressed a Button that released lethal chemicals into her system Kevorkian said it would take a few Days to build another device if he decided to use it. Quot i  do it just to get arrested. It would be to help a patient Quot Kevorkian said. Kevorkian was in Oakland county circuit court on Friday to respond to a temporary injunction issued after Adkins death. Judge Alice Gilbert had ordered him to Stop usin the device and also enjoined the 62-Ycar-old Retiree pathologist from helping people to use any other suicide Means. Kevorkian did no to answer the injunction and assistant county prosecutor Michael Modelski said default papers were filed Friday instead of ruling on a permanent injunction Gilbert gave Kevorkian 21 Days to answer the default ruling Modelski said saturday that Kevorkian could be in contempt of court if he uses the machine. Michigan has no specific Law against suicide or assisting in it. The Case is under investigation by the county prosecutor state police and state medical association. Judge wont Grant Man 2nd divorce in 4 Days Nashville Tenn. Up a probate judge Jim Everett  believe his eyes when nigerian bom Anthony Edale appeared in court for a second divorce in four Days. Everett granted the 25-year-old Man a divorce tuesday from a woman he married in february. On Friday Edale went before the judge to divorce a woman he married in Nigeria in 1983. The judge refused the second divorce request and turned the matter Over to the District attorney general to determine if Edale should be charged with bigamy. Edale s attorney Marilyn Devine said she was aware her client had received a divorce tuesday. She said she filed documents for Edale in May in which it was claimed that Bis Mother sent documents Quot purporting to be a final decree of divorce from a court in Nigeria a she said that decree dissolved a Dafes a 1983 marriage. She added however that Edale fears that the document Quot May not be a valid divorce decree As Many documents coming from. Nigeria Are fraudulent or not official documents rain forces evacuation around Wisconsin River Tomah wis. Apr an estimated 1,000 Homes were evacuated saturday morning As Rivers swollen by an 8-Incn rainfall threatened to rupture the Lake Tomah dam authorities said. Hundreds of residents were evacuated from around the Lemon Weir River in Tomah after the Friday night rainstorm said Carleen Pearson of the Monroe county police. Quot its chaotic a said Donette Gorbet of the Tomah police. Quot we re telling everybody to stay away from  about 300 people were transported to a Tomah Junior High school gymnasium said authorities in this West Central Wisconsin Tow n of 7,00.0. Although flooding left the dam in a precarious condition water pressure on the dam was beginning to recede by mid coming authorities said. Tomah police it. Chris Anderson expected the situation to be under control later saturday. A 25-mile to 30-mile stretch of Highway 12-16 and parts of interstate 90 Between Oakdale and Sparta also were closed Pearson said. The rain soaked the town Over a three hour period Friday night. Assistant fire chief Stu Westphall said the City was in Quot a  no deaths or injuries have been reported. No damage estimate was available. The City a ambulance service civil defense and police department were involved in the evacuation Pearson said