Show 7 12 Gallons of Strato Strata A Air r Shrinks i To 2 Quarts But Explodes Old Theories p 4 I i c I 1 Copyright 1936 by N National Geographic Society from froni NE NEA Service Had you been in the Explorer II on its record stratosphere 1 flight last fall faU this is what you would have hav seen had you looked downward at th the instant the great balloon reached feet the greatest height yet attained by man The picture re snapped automatically at 1141 a. a m. m mf November No No- vember 11 II shows an area of square miles in central South Dakota The town of Parmelee is in the upper left hand corner Cutting through h the right side of the picture is the south fork lork of the th-e White e river The irregular pattern of darl squares and rectangles is 15 made by cultivated ed fields contrasted d against surrounding grasslands Note h how w like a relief map the erosion chan channels nels of streams emptying into tho the I 10 White river 10 look ok j f NEW YORK May 1 CUP UP- UP Twelve gallons of air brought to earth from feet teet aloft by the strat stratosphere re balloon Explorer II have ave shrunk to two quarts but still h have ve b been en sufficient nt to explode ex ex- lode some old scientific theories Captain Albert Alber W. W Stevens re revealed revealed re- re today in the National Geographic Geographic Geo Geo- graphic Magazine Magazin The Theair air t the tho top of ot the stratosphere flight Ja last l year yearby yearby ear earby by Stevens and Captain Orvil A. A Anderson of Utah is being analyzed by the tho bureau of or standards in Washington Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment and university laboratories all over the countr country are compiling reports of other data gathered at atthe tho the highest point man has reached Captain Stevens said the stratosphere stratosphere stratosphere strato strato- sphere air vas found to differ only in minor respects from air at sea sealevel sealevel sealevel level although it was so rarified that when brought to earth the 12 gallons collected almost Tho atmospheric pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure at feet was found to tobe tobe tobe be only l I that of sea level levelA A majority of ot theorists had be believed be- be prior to the Stevens- Stevens Anderson flight that the proportion proportion proportion tion of nitrogen to oxygen in air at extreme h heights would be e different dif dlf- dif dif- ferent from ith t near the earth One On One of t f the p potentially most Import Important Im Im- im- im port discoveries ies made Stevens said ld waS was that hit cosmic rays mess meas- ure ufe bl bI by th their ionization effects eeds com como come from om the vertical direction in In- In Ino o numbers humbers up to 12 miles above bove tho earth but decrease decrease decrease de de- de- de crease in numbers in the next two I until at 14 1 miles mUes they are equalled In hi numbers by rays from horizontal horizontal hori hori- ont l directions |