Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1947 — Page 48

"Flying Film’ to Further Study of Cosmic Rays

By PAUL F. ELLIS by one and % inches, was placed

NEW YORK, Dec. T1oA" irans- 0 the cockpit of the big plane, a

Atlantic airliner takes off - today, Constellation, The plane is bound carrying a piece of strange cargo: a, and will fly at 15,000 sealed photographic plate, The. package will This plate will be half way make two trips to Calcutta, around the world, and will record] On its return from the second the amount. of cosmic rays through trip, the package will be placed which the plane will pass at various ghoard a Pan-American clipper flyaltitudes and in different sections ing to Johannesburg, South Africa. of the world. It will make two trips to Johannes-| It is a new experiment In the burg, : | study of cosmic rays that bombard The entire project will be com-| the earth from all directions. It is pleted in about three weeks, | being carried out by the Pan-Amer-| Scientists .at the institufe de-! fcan Airways at the request of the clined to predict what results may| Institute for Nuclear Studies of the he obtained. { University of Chicago. » The experiment with the plane is Since the discovery. of cosmic expected to show the intensity of rays, science has been making cosmic radiation at different altistudies to determine where they tudes and over certain areas of land. ! come from, their energy and The emulsion on the film is pene- | whether they have a part in the trated by the radiation, leaving binding forces of the nucleus of the tracks. From these tracks, sclen-! atom. The photographic plate, con- tists can determine the mass and tained in a package three inches energy of the rays.

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