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Video: Solar Storm To Lash Earth Until Wednesday
Our Geo Quiz starts 93 million miles away: on the surface of the Sun. That’s where a solar eruption happened over the weekend. It’s described as an immense blast of plasma and radiation streaming out from the sun. The question is, what kind of storm are we talking about?
Cartoon: NASA’s Predictions for 2012
NASA held a press conference last month to try to debunk the latest doomsday scenarios for Earth in 2012 but Chinese cartoonist Luojie thinks the space agency may have forgotten one thing.
Global Forecast: Stormy Weather
The news about climate change comes rather like snowflakes in a blizzard—from all directions at once, and accumulating in such overwhelming amounts and impact that it can be hard to know where to start digging out [...]
Why Space Junk Needs to be Taken Seriously
Report by the NRC suggests it’s time to take space junk seriously.
Planetary Super Storm
The Geo Quiz is looking for a planet this time where a tremendous storm is encircling it.
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s legacy
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Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to orbit the earth. The World’s Clark Boyd looks back on Gagarin’s legacy, in Russia and beyond. Download MP3Video: The first space-Earth duet
How to help the trapped Chilean miners
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It will be months before those 33 trapped miners in Chile see the light of day. NASA is advising the rescuers now and the European Space Agency can help, too. They’ve had six volunteers simulating an 18-month mission to Mars. Much like the miners in Chile, the volunteers are being monitored to see how they handle the isolation in cramped conditions. Jennifer Ngo Ahn, is project manager of Mars 500 at the European Space Agency. Download MP3Volunteers begin Mars500 isolation
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Six men were locked into a simulated space capsule today, at the start of an eighteen-month-long experiment to imitate a space-flight to Mars and back. The experiment, which is taking place in a warehouse in Moscow, will test whether humans can cope with the isolation and claustrophobia they’d experience during a real mission. Jeb Sharp reports. Download MP3Audio slideshow: The Hubble is 20
The famous space telescope has been peering into some of the deepest recesses of the universe for two decades – and is now celebrating its 20th birthday. In this Best of the BBC, you can take a look at some of the fantastic sights it has seen in that time with Professor Alec Boksenberg from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge – who was on the European team that helped build Hubble.
Science podcast: Volcanic ash’s health effects
In the latest science podcast, Rhitu Chatterjee explores potential health impacts of ash from the Icelandic volcano with the difficult-to-pronounce name. Also, news about the future of U.S. space exploration and the puzzling health problems cropping up among the survivors of the Haiti earthquake. >
Weather balloon photos from space
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Our Geo Quiz usually asks you about things on the surface of the Earth. Today we’re looking up – way up. We want to know where the atmosphere ends and outer space begins. In other words — how high the sky? Download MP3 (Photo: Robert Harrison)
Tech Podcast 270: Drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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On this week’s podcast, we kick off with an extended version of an interview with Noah Shachtman of Wired.com. Noah’s just back from checking out the drones that are currently flying over Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he’s got a lot of interesting things to talk about. We’ll also take a trip into space to hear about a new NASA telescope, and about Sapporo’s “Space Barley” Beer.
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.
Entire Program – July 8, 2009
Today on The World: Leaders at the G8 summit agree on targets for reducing greenhouse gases, moondust becomes a medium for a former Apollo astronaut turned artist, and a view of President Obama’s Moscow visit, courtesy of Russian TV. Listen
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