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TURNING MOONDUST INTO AIR AND WATER
May 5, 2008 Guests: Gerry Sanders Select Format: MP3 Windows Media NASA is learning how future Moon colonists will mine and refine lunar regolith, turning it into the oxygen and water they'll need to survive without constant resupply by Earth. Gerry Sanders heads... more »
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE
April 28, 2008 Guests: Neil Gehrels Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Swift spacecraft found the biggest explosion ever witnessed by humans just last month. This Gamma Ray Burst was halfway across the universe. Principal Investigator Neil Gehrels tells us about... more »
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF EARTHLIKE PLANETS?
April 21, 2008 Guests: Michael Meyer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media What if many or even most of the stars in our galaxy have rocky planets? Now there's evidence of just that from the team of scientists led by University of Arizona astronomer Michael Meyer. He... more »
A MARS ROVER UPDATE FROM STEVE SQUYRES
April 14, 2008 Guests: Steve Squyres Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Principal Investigator for Spirit and Opportunity gives us a status report on the incredibly successful rovers that continue to explore Mars. Bill Nye the Science Guy comments on the rings that... more »
ANALYZING ALIEN ATMOSPHERES
April 7, 2008 Guests: Mark Swain Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the team that has found methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is the first time an organic molecule has been found on an... more »
FLYING THROUGH THE GEYSERS OF ENCELADUS
March 31, 2008 Guests: John Spencer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Southwest Research Institute's John Spencer returns to tell us about the Cassini spacecraft's recent flight through the gas and dust plumes shooting out of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Emily... more »
SIR ARTHUR CLARKE: A TRIBUTE
March 24, 2008 Guests: Arthur C. Clarke, James D. Burke Select Format: MP3 Windows Media You'll hear Arthur's greeting to the future Martians recorded for Visions of Mars, now racing to the Red Planet on the Phoenix... more »
LOOK OUT! IT'S A MARTIAN AVALANCHE!
March 17, 2008 Guests: Alfred McEwen Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The latest triumph of the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the image of a Martian landslide. We talk with Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen about his teams' marvelous... more »
JOHN ANDERSON AND THE FLYBY ANOMALY
March 10, 2008 Guests: John Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media First the Pioneer Anomaly, now a new challenge to physics appears in the Flyby Anomaly. JPL celestial mechanics expert John Anderson... more »
SAVING THE PLANET: THE APOPHIS MISSION DESIGN COMPETITION
March 3, 2008 Guests: Bruce Betts, Louis Friedman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Special coverage of the conclusion of The Planetary Society's international competition to design a mission that would "tag" asteroid and near-Earth object Apophis. Bill Nye the Science Guy is... more » |
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