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The mission of Science@NASA is to help the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities. Primary Format : Science Language : English Also Listed as: City : Huntsville State/Province : AL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Science@NASA Feature Stories Podcasts Methings.com listings of Science@NASA Feature Stories Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Geminid Meteors Defy Explanation The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th. Researchers don't fully understand the Geminids, and new measurements make it more mysterious than ever. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Arsenic-Bug" Redefines Life as We Know It NASA-supported researchers have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism, which lives in California's Mono Lake, substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in the backbone of its DNA. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alien Comets Invade the Solar System Some of the comets in our Solar System probably came from other stars, according to new research by NASA-supported scientists. Studying these 'alien' comets, they say, could reveal new information about stellar systems far, far away. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubble Observes Possible Asteroid Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured rare images of a suspected asteroid collision. The snapshots show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material. Their findings will be published in the Oct. 14th issue of Nature. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through the sundog, eliciting cries of delight and amazement from the crowd below. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3D Sun for the iPhone Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers? Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same altitude where commercial airliners fly. Do these blasts of gamma-radiation pose a hazard to air travelers? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Close Encounter with Mars This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirit is Now a Stationary Science Platform NASA announced today that Mars rover Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary science platform. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery of the Giant Ribbon, Solved? Evidence is mounting that a strong magnetic field lurks just beyond the edge of the solar system. This could explain the recent discovery of a "giant ribbon" in space by NASA's IBEX spacecraft. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alien Planet Safari NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to study stars and galaxies. Astronomers are beginning to realize, however, that Webb will make a great planet hunter too. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flying Telescope Passes Key Test Most astronomers wouldn't dream of opening their observatory's doors in 100 mph winds. Yet NASA's new SOFIA telescope recently flew in an airplane at 250 mph with doors wide open. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Won't the Supernova Explode? NASA is building a new space telescope named "NuSTAR" to answer a question that has been vexing astrophysicists for decades: Why won't the supernova explode? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kepler Discovers Five Exoplanets NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirit Faces Uncertain Future as New Year Dawns NASA's Mars rover Spirit is about to mark six years of Red Planet exploration. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving career of the beloved, scrappy robot. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Moon on New Year's Eve Party planners take note. For the first time in almost twenty years, there's going to be a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Flash of Light from Titan NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light A continent-wide network of all-sky cameras has photographed a never-before-seen phenomenon: colliding auroras that produce explosions of light. The must-see images have solved a long-standing mystery of Northern Lights. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Climate One Stop" Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen This week, researchers attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen unveiled a unique web site that gathers and organizes climate data for decision makers, professional scientists and lay people. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower The Geminid meteor shower has been intensifying in recent years, and researchers say 2009 could be the best year yet. This year's display peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website En Route to Mars, The Moon Why colonize the Moon before going to Mars? NASA scientists give their reasons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cutting Edge Physics for Us All In April, people from all walks of life are invited to join top scientists at a unique conference to discuss the mysteries of modern physics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Skies on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered another world with blue skies: Saturn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ultrasound for Astronauts Far away from doctors and hospitals, astronauts in space are learning to give themselves checkups using ultrasound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA on your iPod Using an iPod or any portable MP3 player, you can now explore the Universe while driving, jogging, waiting in line ... just about anywhere. It's easy: tune in to the Science@NASA podcast. 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