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Appendix A: The International Geophysical Year
Appendix A: The International Geophysical Year
Pages 147-148
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carried out in the arctic and equatorial regions, special International organization and funding of the IGY attention was given to the Antarctic, where research were overseen by the International Council of Scientific on ice depths yielded radically new estimates of the Unions (ICSU) , an independent federation of interna- earth's total ice content.
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Overall, the IGY was highly revolutionary plate tectonic theory; measurements of successful in achieving its goals, which were summed upper atmospheric winds; the unprecedented setting up in an NAS IGY Program Report: aside of an entire continent (Antarctica) for scientific research, later embodied in the Antarctica Treaty -- and ...to obsere geophysical phenomena and to secure data from most dramatically, the launching by rocket of the first all parts of the world; to conduct this effort on a coordinated artificial Earth-orbiting satellites, so inaugurating the basis by fields, and in space and time, so that results could be collated in a meaningful manner.
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