Missing X‐Ray Telescope Data Recovered after Year at Sea

Instead of a bottle washed up on the shore with a message in it, the beachcomber found an instrument pod; the message it contained was on photographic film and it came from an x‐ray source, Sco X‐l. The pod was part of an MIT x‐ray telescope launched in Australia and lost at sea in April 1969. It was given up for lost until it turned up on a New Zealand beach early in January.