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19 Mar 2013
- 09:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Nancy Atkinson - Russian Airblast The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The ...
- 07:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Si... How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video. What is "solar conjunction," and how does ...
18 Mar 2013
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | GPM Enters Thermal Vacuum Chamber Short musical interlude showing the lifting of the GPM Core satellite into the Space Environmental Simulator for testing.
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Why are We Seeing So Many Sungrazing Comets? Before 1979, there were less than a dozen known sungrazing comets. As of December 2012, we know of 2,500. Why did this number increase? With solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO, ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | TDRS: Continuing The Fleet NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Mona Lisa on the Moon As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Fermi Finds Radio Bursts from Terrestrial Gamma-ra... Thanks to improved data analysis techniques and a new operating mode, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now 10 times better at catching the ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Continuing Landsat''s 40-Year Legacy The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | TDRS: Communicating Critical Data As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continue's to ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | RRM: The Main Event The prospect of robots in space tantalizes NASA engineers with extraordinary possibility. Powerful and sophisticated, these tools may be able to extend the working lives of aging spacecraft, something that ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Curiosity Rover Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars wit... NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Space Station Robots Test Techniques of the Future Robots present certain advantages when working in the harsh environment of space. They're not susceptible to hunger, to sleepiness, or catastrophic injury for starters. They're also capable of highly precise, ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | RRM Day One: Captured! Day One of the Robotic Refueling Mission comes to a successful close. NASA engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Johnson Space Center put a robot to work ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Earth at Night In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric. This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun''s Atmosphere To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around – but scientists have ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Zombie Fomalhaut b: Study of Hubble Data Revives a... A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Petermann Ice Island 2012 In the spring and summer of 2012, land- and sea ice thinned in some regions within the Arctic Circle and completely disappeared in others. Satellites watched as a hurricane-force storm ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Saturn''s Record-Setting Storm Saturn’s 2010 Great White Spot storm has set a new record for the largest temperature change ever detected on the ringed planet. By studying the monstrous disturbance using NASA's Cassini ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy E... A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Fermi Explores the Early Universe Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Gradient Sun Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. But there is more to the connection between the two ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Landsat: Making a Difference, One User At A Time The Landsat Data Continuity Mission will continue the legacy of the 40-year Landsat program. This video examines two uses of Landsat data to monitor agriculture. Both wineries and timber companies ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Simulations Uncover ''Flashy'' Secrets of Merging ... According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves -- distortions in the very fabric of space and time -- that ripple outward across the universe at the ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Atomic Interferometry Einstein predicted gravity waves in his general theory of relativity, but to date these ripples in the fabric of space-time have never been observed. Now a scientific research technique called ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a C... One of the nearest and richest OB associations in our galaxy is Cygnus OB2, which is located about 4,700 light-years away and hosts some 3,000 hot stars, including about 100 ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations If you want to learn more about the history of Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system, craters are a great place to look. Now, thanks to LRO's ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain When it rains it pours, goes the saying, and for the last 15 years, the data on tropical rainfall have poured in. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | X-ray Nova Reveals a New Black Hole in Our Galaxy On Sept. 16, NASA's Swift satellite detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare ...
- 18:30 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... Time for a Map It's hard to get lost these days. GPS pinpoints your location to within a few feet. Discover how our need to get from A to B holds clues about what ...
- 18:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Laser Comm: That''s a Bright Idea Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration ...
- 18:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Van Gogh Sun A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information – often through graphs and images. Such ...
- 18:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | The Radiation Belt Storm Probe The Van Allen Probes (formerly the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, RBSP) will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The charged particles in these regions can be ...
- 18:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | MAVEN: Mars Atmospheric Loss When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a nice place to live. It's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But ...
- 17:17 UTC RC Hangar Time Episode 10 - Antonio Lopez This week we have a special guest with us, Antonio Lopez. We sit down and interview him with his time at Nitroplanes and how he got into flying and his ...
- 16:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | The Mars Chamber The Mars chamber is a box--about the size of a refrigerator--that re-creates the temperatures, pressures, and atmosphere of the Martian surface, essentially creating a Mars environment on Earth! Scientists and ...
- 16:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Dynamic Earth A giant explosion of magnetic energy from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, slams into and is deflected completely by the Earth's powerful magnetic field. The sun also continually ...
- 16:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | LRO Brings ""Earthrise"" to Everyone On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over ...
- 16:03 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Exoplanet Atmosphere Blasted by Stellar Flare An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system. The scientists conclude ...
- 09:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... 365 Days of Astronomy -- 18 March, 2013 AstronomyCast: Episode 289 Cherenkov Radiation Originally recorded on 28 January, 2013 Podcasters: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing ...
- 07:00 UTC Are We Alone? Time for a Map It’s hard to get lost these days. GPS pinpoints your location to within a few feet. Discover how our need to get from A to B holds clues about what ...
- 05:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... ALMA Adventure The first of two shows about Mat Kaplan's journey to Chile's Atacama Desert for the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter small millimter Array, the most ambitious, Earth-based astronomy project ...
- 03:14 UTC The Space Show Dr. Jim Wertz, Sunday, 3-17-13 Guest: Dr. James (Jim) Wertz. Topics: Reducing space mission launch costs, changing space industry attitudes. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, ...
17 Mar 2013
- 09:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... NASA Dawn Hangout With CosmoQuest Originally Recorded on 11 December, 2012 Hosted by Joe Wise, Education & Public Outreach Manager for the NASA Dawn Mission with Dr. Pamela Gay from CosmoQuest and Jennifer Scully from ...
16 Mar 2013
- 19:06 UTC Space Talk with Jim... Space Talk with Jim Banke 3/16 Jim Banke talks to Jeff Carr, Senior V.P. of Aerospace for Griffin Communications Group. Space Talk with Jim Banke 3/16
- 17:11 UTC The Space Show Jon Goff, Friday, 3-15-13 Guest: Jon Goff. Topics: The Lunar Patent concept and Altius Space Machines company updates. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. ...
- 12:00 UTC Exposing PseudoAstr... Episode 68: Expat in Hoaglandia: A Fantasia of NASA Consp... My first returning guest - and my first guest ever - is the pseudononymous "Expat" who produced numerous programs for the BBC about the Apollo-era space program. He has spent ...
- 09:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Dr. Pamela Gay & Dr. Nicole Gugliucci on STEM Inspiration Dr. Pamela Gay & Dr. Nicole Gugliucci discuss the women who inspired them to get into the STEM fields over the years. Recorded live from South by Southwest in Austin, ...
15 Mar 2013
- 18:51 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Encore: A Sneak-Peak on Variable Stars, by Julio Vannini GRAIL: A Smashing Success, by the NASA Lunar Science Institute The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes ...
- 17:56 UTC The Space Show Janet Stevens, National Space Symposium, Thursday, 3-14-1... Guest: Janet Stevens. Topic: The National Space Symposium sponsored by the Space Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show ...