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Title :
PRIZE-WINNING WORK ON CURRENT-
LAYER DYNAMICS AND SOLAR ACTIVITY
Primary source :
Moskovskiy komsomol-
ets, March 6, 1983, No. 55 (13625),
p. 4, cols. 8-9
Abstract :
The article is an inter-
view with B. Somov, the head of the
solar plasma study group under the
USSR Academy of Sciences' Astronomical
Council and a senior science associate
of the academy's Physics Institute
imeni Lebedev (FIAN) .
Somov is iden-
tified as a member of a group of phy-
sicists who were awarded the 1982 USSR
State Prize for a cycle of works en-
titled "Dynamics of Current Layers and
Solar Activity".
Commenting on its
nature and significance, Somov says
the work provides a theoretical sub-
Stantiation of the chain of processes
occurring in solar plasma, from the
formation of sunspots and active re-
gions to the accumulation and libera-
tion of energy in the form of flares
in the sun's atmosphere. These phe-
nomena were studied by various methods,
including analytical and modeling
methods. Experiments conducted with
equipment developed at the USSR Aca-
demy of Sciences' Institute of Space
Research, the Siberian Institute of
Earth Magnetism, and FIAN reportedly
have confirmed the theory formulated
by Somov's group.
Somov goes on to mention possible
areas of application of the findings
of the work.
They include space
flight and controlled thermonuclear
fusion. The work is said to provide
a good theoretical basis for develop-
ing improved methods for forecasting
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solar flares and, consequently, radia-
tion danger to spacecraft and their
crews, for example. Academician Boris
Kadomtsev is said to believe that both
solar flares and the phenomenon of
destructive instability of plasma in
tokamak reactors may sometimes have
the same underlying mechanism. Further
study of the operation of this mechan-
ism may permit the development of new
elementary-particle accelerator sys-
tems of very high power.
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Title :
TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDIES OF
EARTH FROM SPACE DESCRIBED
Primary source :
Ekonomicheskaya gaz-
età, March 1983, No. 12, p. 2, cols.
1-5
Abstract: The article is a survey of
the scope of studies of the Earth from
space for economic purposes.
The sur -
vey was compiled by the department on
problems of the atmosphere and the
oceans of the USSR State Committee for
Science and Technology. Estimates re-
portedly indicate than an economic ef-
fect of 500 to 600 million rubles is
yielded annually from the use of data
obtained from space in the interests
of various branches of the economy.
A section of the article is devoted
to the technology of studies of the
Earth from space.
It identifies two
'subsystems' for this -- photographic
and operational. The photographic sub-
system is said to be intended for the
study of processes that take place
slowly, and of stable formations on
the Earth's surface. Special photo-
graphic equipment with high resolving
power and geometric imaging precision
is carried on various types of space-
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Friday
April 1, 1983
Author:
Andreyev, Vasiliy,
JPM
spondent (interviewer)
JF