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Bill Nye Wants Your Help to Save Our Science!
Guests
- Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer
NASA's budget for planetary science is in jeopardy. Working together, we can convince Congress to restore the funds needed to keep planetary exploration alive! You can help. Bill tells you how
Snapshots from Space: Seasons on Mars
Guests
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
Emily opens a new Planetary Society video series with this brief yet fascinating look at the Martian seasons, explaining why winters are much less fun in the southern hemisphere. Mat Kaplan produces.
Snapshots From Space: NASA's Treasure Trove of Unprocessed Images
Guests
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
The second episode of Emily Lakdawalla's new series explains why the vast majority of NASA's space images have never been seen by the public. They are all available online, just waiting for space geeks to turn them into pictorial gold.
Laser Bees: A Presentation About Asteroid Deflection Through Laser Ablation
Guests
- Alison Gibbings, Laser Bees Researcher, University of Glasgow
The Planetary Society supports pioneering research into this innovative and exciting concept for changing the Earth-threatening trajectory of asteroids. Grad student Alison Gibbings recently visited Society headquarters to provide a detailed status report on behalf of Dr. Max Vasile, leader of Mirror/Laser Bees research at the University of Strathclyde.
A Message of Gratitude From Alison Gibbings
Guests
- Alison Gibbings, Laser Bees Researcher, University of Glasgow
Grad student Alison Gibbings is part of the Mirror/Laser Bees research supported by the members of the Planetary Society. Alison recorded this message on behalf of research leader Max Vasile and other colleagues at the University of Strathclyde.
L'Garde Solar Sail Deployment Animation
L'Garde, Inc. provided this animation of a 10,000-square-meter behemoth of a sail being deployed above the Earth
Snapshots from Space: Revealing Jupiter's (Mostly) Unseen Treasures
Guests
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
Tens of thousands of images were taken of Jupiter by the Voyager spacecraft. Why have only a hundred or so been widely processed and published? Emily Lakdawalla explains the hardships and rewards of teasing the beauty out of these treasures.
Session 9: Saturn (continued), and Uranian and Neptunian Systems
Guests
- Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
Uranian and Neptunian Systems
Does Time Go Slower on Earth Than in Space?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye
Guests
- Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer
Does Time Go Slower on Earth Than in Space? Bill Nye says yes! And the reason is all relative, or rather, relativity. Take a minute or two to watch his timely demonstration.
Session 8: Saturn and its moons
Guests
- Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
Saturnian System, Ring Systems
More Multimedia
Bruce Betts' Online College Intro Astronomy Course 2013
Planetary Society Director of Projects Dr. Bruce Betts taugh an online introductory college Astronomy class during Spring semester 2013 that watch the archive of here. The course was through California State University Dominguez Hills.
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