How high the moon?

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December 21 marks the shortest day – and the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. This year there was an extra treat on the solstice: A total lunar eclipse. Our question today: Do you know the distance to the moon? Download MP3

A moon called Phobos

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Limtoc and Flimnap are your first clues for this Geo Quiz. Those are names of places on Phobos, a moon orbiting another planet in our solar system. Question is: which planet? Download MP3

WTP 262: Moon crash, Peruvian fog nets, Nobel Prize in physics, and Trongs!

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A listener-centered episode this week. Tech Podcast listener and inventor Eric Zimmerman shares his low-tech solution to a high-tech problem; namely, how do manage to answer your cell phone when you’re eating buffalo wings and your fingers are covered in sauce? Trongs. Also, NASA crashes into the moon (on purpose), and Peru tries to harvest water with fog nets. And, we have a technological nod to the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Moon artist

It’s been almost 40 years since a human first walked on the moon. Neil Armstrong made that giant leap for mankind in July 1969. 11 other men walked on the lunar surface between 1969-1972. Of that intrepid dozen, only one is an artist. Lisa Mullins talked with Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean.

Moon art from someone who’s been there

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Alan Bean, former Apollo astronaut, now artist. Bean was the fourth man to walk on the moon. These days, he tries to capture his experiences in space on canvas.
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Alan Bean’s artwork