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Summary: This document discusses two different articles. The first article is an interview with B. Somov, a scientist who won the 1982 USSR State Prize for his work on solar dynamics and activity. Somov explains that their work provides a theoretical explanation of the processes that occur in solar plasma, from the formation of sunspots to the release of energy in the form of flares. He also mentions the potential applications of their findings, including improving forecasting of solar flares and radiation danger to spacecraft. The second article discusses the economic benefits of studying the Earth from space. It states that data obtained from space contributes to the economy, and identifies two subsystems for studying the Earth from space: photographic and operational. The photographic subsystem is used to study slow processes and stable formations on Earth's surface.

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 Friday
 April 1,  1983
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 DaiIy Sillp
 Soviet News Abstracts Publication
 FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
 Author:   Andreyev,    v.,,.;7,__ _____A
 sponaent  (interviewer)
 Title: PRIZE-WINNING WORK ON CURRENT 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, an      N reported    y
 hav         e   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.
 Title:   TECHNOLOGY FOR   STUDIES    OF
 EARTH FROM SPACE DESCRIBED
 Primary  source:   Ekonomicheskaya       gaz-
 eta,  March  1983,                                                                              No.   12,  p.  2,  cols.
 1-5
 ir
 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  cn
 the  Earth's surface.   Special      photo-
 graphic equipment with                                                                                  high  resolving
 power  and  geometric  imaging  precision
 is  carried  on various  types  of  space-