Podcaster: Steve Nerlich
Title: A mission to Mars
Organization: Cheap Astronomy
Links: http://cheapastro.com
Description: Cheap Astronomy suggests that flying to Mars is harder than it looks.
Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website giving your more Big Bang for your buck.
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Nine-year-old Mars rover passes 40-year-old record
While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth’s moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission’s Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (22.210 statute miles or 35.744 kilometers). That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday.
May 17th: Space Highlight by Space Journalist
Podcaster: Fraser Cain, Nicole Gugliucci, David Dickinson, Nancy Atkinson, Pamela Gay
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Space Highlight May 10th, 2013
Link : http://cosmoquest.org
Here are this week’s stories:
Emergency spacewalk for coolant leak: http://www.universetoday.com/102072/emergency-spacewalk-likely-for-serious-iss-coolant-leak/
Annular Solar Eclipse photo gallery: http://www.universetoday.com/102049/an-awesome-annular-eclipse-images-and-videos-from-earth-and-space/
Planet polluted white dwarfs: http://www.universetoday.com/102053/hubble-observes-planet-polluted-dead-stars-in-hyades/
Hydrogen Clouds near Andromeda: http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/gbtclouds/
Conjunction: http://www.universetoday.com/102027/venus-comes-out-of-hiding-how-to-see-upcoming-conjunctions-in-the-evening-sky/
Gamma-ray burst afterglow detected by amateur astronomer: http://www.universetoday.com/102017/amateur-astronomer-catches-record-setting-gamma-ray-burst/
And then go watch the “Gravity” trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/bVlz_jHOXRg
This audio has been aired in live streaming on May 10th, 2013
Description: Round up a week’s worth of space and astronomy news. This time we’ll have rocket launches, images of a solar eclipse, weird astrophysics and more
Bio: Fraser Cain, Universe Today Publisher; David Dickinson, the astroguyz and writer in Universe Today; Nicole Gugliucci from Cosmoquest; Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today editor and Pamela Gay from Cosmoquest
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The Week in Pictures: May 11–17, 2013
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:5/17/2013
Scientists shape first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:5/17/2013
Radio telescope reveals giant outbursts from binary star system
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:5/17/2013
NASA's asteroid sample return mission moves into development
NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Galaxy's 'burning ring of fire' is frenetic region of star formation
Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy’s burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The “starburst ring” seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues is not the product of love, as in the song, but is instead a frenetic region of star formation. The galaxy, a spiral beauty called Messier 94, is located about 17 million light-years away.
Weather on the outer planets only goes so deep
What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets Uranus and Neptune? These planets are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as large around as Earth, immense weather systems that last for years and fast-flowing jet streams. Researchers set an upper limit for the thickness of jet streams on Uranus and Neptune.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 to sail past Earth is nine times larger than cruise ship
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) — or larger — radar telescope at their disposal.
