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SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth Imagine cutting retractable doors in the side of a 747 airliner, installing a 17-ton telescope, and flying to the stratosphere to solve one of astronomy's greatest puzzles. That's what NASA and the German Aerospace Center plan to do with a cutting-edge airborne observatory named SOFIA. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LCROSS Finds Water on the Moon The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. At a press conference today, researchers revealed data from NASA's LCROSS mission indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Spirit be Freed? On Monday, NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower The 2009 Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17th with a sprinkling of meteors over North America and a possible outburst over Asia. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale of Planetary Woe Long ago, something calamitous happened to Mars, transforming a hospitable world into the apparently lifeless desert we see today. Many scientists believe the Red Planet lost most of its atmosphere, but how? A new NASA mission named MAVEN is specifically designed to answer that question. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity" NASA's next Mars rover, a super-capable robot named "Curiosity," will push Mars exploration to a new level. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sun's Sneaky Variability It might not be obvious to the naked eye, but the sun is a variable star. A sensor slated for launch onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory will probe the sun's "sneaky variability" with better time and spectral resolution than ever before. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere NASA is planning a mission to study the Moon's fragile atmosphere--before it's too late. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower Caused by debris from Halley's Comet, the 2009 Orionid meteor shower peaks on Wednesday, Oct. 21st, and forecasters say it could be an unusually good show. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. The space agency is perfecting the art of "airless flying" using a prototype lunar lander at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Ribbon Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System NASA's IBEX spacecraft has discovered a vast, glowing ribbon at the edge of the solar system. One mission scientist calls the discovery "shocking" and says theorists are "working like crazy" to explain the finding. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Ring Discovered Around Saturn Just when you thought every big thing in the Solar System had already been discovered, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found an extraordinary new ring around Saturn. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microwaving Water from Moondust NASA scientists have figured out how to extract water from lunar soil. Their approach is as easy as using a microwave oven. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves' Archeologists are using NASA satellites and supercomputers to crack the mystery of the ancient Maya. New findings suggest the Maya may have played a key role in their own downfall. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LCROSS Viewer's Guide On Friday morning, Oct. 9th, you can watch a pair of spacecraft crash into the Moon with your own eyes. The purposeful impacts are the climax of NASA's LCROSS mission to unearth signs of water in lunar soil. Today's story tells how and where to look. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High NASA spacecraft are measuring record-high levels of cosmic rays--a side-effect of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. This development could have implications for the amount of shielding astronauts need to take when they explore deep space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Water Molecules Found on the Moon Using instruments on three separate spacecraft, scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meteorite Impacts Expose Ice on Mars Fresh meteorite impacts are exposing underground ice on Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is beaming back must-see photos of the process at work. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MESSENGER Set for Final Flyby of Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set to make its third and final flyby of the planet Mercury on Sept. 29th. The encounter is expected to produce hundreds of images of previously unseen terrain and confirm the strange elliptical shape of Mercury's equator. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website School Kids Track LCROSS Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things) NASA is set to launch a sensitive new infrared telescope to seek out sneaky things in the night sky -- among them, dark asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Selects Target Crater for Lunar Impact NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is racing toward a double-impact on the moon at 7:30 am EDT on Oct. 9th. Today NASA announced exactly where the crash will take place.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Unveils First Images from Rejuvenated Hubble Astronomers declared the Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Sunspots Disappearing? The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has prompted some observers to wonder, are sunspots disappearing?Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honey, I Blew Up the Tokamak NASA is planning a daring new mission to investigate the Universe's favorite way of making things explode. Unlocking the secrets of"magnetic reconnection" could help alleviate the energy crisis on Earth.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Heads Out to Sea The agency best known for exploring the vast reaches of space has been exploring some of the vast beaches of Earth--and the results may help protect them. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chandra Turns 10 Astronomers are celebrating 10 years of discovery by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Today's story highlights some of Chandra's most surprising, violent and beautiful images of the high-energy Universe. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Search of Antimatter Galaxies Next year, a powerful cosmic ray detector will be installed on the International Space Station. Its mission: to search for antimatter galaxies and other exotic phenomena in the Universe. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Horse Flies and Meteors Like bugs streaking down the side window of a moving car, colorful Perseid Earthgrazers could put on a pleasing show after sunset on Tuesday, August 11th. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Porch Open for Business Barely two weeks after it was installed by the crew of space shuttle Endeavour, the Japanese-built platform is already bustling with experiments in astronomy and space physics--and that's just for starters. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kepler Detects an Exoplanet Atmosphere NASA's new planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the changing phases and atmosphere of a planet a thousand light years away. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Hit Jupiter? Two weeks after something slammed into Jupiter, creating a cloud of debris that is still easy to see through backyard telescopes, researchers are wondering ... what was the impactor? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2009 Perseid Meteor Shower Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, setting the stage for the 2009 Perseid meteor shower. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place this Wednesday, July 22nd. The path of totality crosses many major cities, setting the stage for possibly the best-observed eclipse in human history. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apollo Landing Sites Photographed NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface and more. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity Why couldn't Neil Armstrong fall asleep on the Moon? The answer is revealed in today's suspenseful story from Science@NASA. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beating Heart, Minus Gravity When astronauts travel through space, the human heart loses something it needs: the Earthly pull of gravity. Is this a problem? NASA is launching a new study to find out. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers Amateur astronomers have photographed NASA's LCROSS spacecraft en route to an October crash landing on the Moon. Observers say the spacecraft is surprisingly easy to photograph, and NASA hopes more amateurs will give it a try. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Station Marathon The International Space Station (ISS) is about to make a remarkable series of flybys over the United States. Beginning this 4th of July weekend, the station will appear once, twice, and sometimes three times a day for many days in a row. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Station Room With a View Astronauts are looking forward to an unprecedented view of the cosmos when the largest window ever built for space is installed on the International Space Station. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satellites Guide Relief to Earthquake Victims In the aftermath of a recent, deadly earthquake, the NASA-led SERVIR program orchestrated use of satellite data to show Honduran disaster officials where help was needed most. 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 Missing Sunspots, Solved? Where have all the sunspots gone? Scientists studying a jet stream deep inside the sun may have found the answer. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Running Out of This World With NASA poised to launch the world's most famous treadmill (COLBERT) to the International Space Station, an astronaut describes what it's like to run in space where sweat floats and there is no gravity to hold your feet to the ground. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return of the Mars Hoax Just when you thought it was safe to check your email, the Mars Hoax is back! Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare Researchers are about to subject a fake astronaut complete with blood cells and simulated human tissue to an artificial solar flare. How the unlucky volunteer emerges from the radiation storm will reveal for the first time how much of a threat severe solar flares pose to astronauts en route to the Moon and Mars. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Solar Cycle Prediction An international panel of experts has issued a new prediction for the solar cycle which takes into account the surprisingly deep solar minimum of 2008-2009. Read today's story to find out when they think solar maximum will return. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eerie Red Glow Traces Ocean Plant Health NASA's Aqua satellite has detected a red glow coming from phytoplankton in Earth's oceans. This unique signal allows researchers to monitor the health of ocean plants in a new and telling way. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Phantom Torso Returns The Phantom Torso is back on Earth and he has quite a story to tell about the perils of space radiation. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on Final Mission to Hubble Space shuttle Atlantis with its seven-member crew launched at 2:01 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 11th, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salmonella Spills its Secrets on the Space Shuttle NASA-supported researchers have figured out why Salmonella bacteria become more virulent when they travel on board spaceships. They've also learned how to calm the bacteria down again--a trick that could come in handy for fighting diseases here on Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Active Mercury A NASA spacecraft gliding over the surface of Mercury has revealed that the planet's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and its geological past display greater levels of activity than scientists first suspected. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance record for the most powerful explosions in the Universe. Researchers are calling it 'an incredible find' and a 'true blast from the past.' Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Sky Show On Sunday, April 26th, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will line up in the western sky for a beautiful sunset conjunction.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Puts the Right Stuff in the Right Hands All research and no application makes data a dull toy. NASA's SPoRT program brings data to life by putting it in the hands of people who can use it best--the National Weather Service forecasters who send us scurrying for cover when severe weather looms.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Disappears During Meteor Shower A meteor shower. A crescent Moon. A disappearing planet. These three things will be on display next Wednesday, April 22nd, when the Moon occults Venus during the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). It turns out the most ferocious storms resemble something from a French bakery. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Heads up Mt. Everest NASA researchers are about to climb the slopes of Earth's tallest mountain to test exploration technologies they'll need on the Moon and Mars. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website STEREO Hunts for Remains of an Ancient Planet near Earth NASA's twin STEREO probes are entering a mysterious region of space to look for remains of an ancient planet which once orbited the Sun not far from Earth. If they find anything, it could solve a major puzzle--the origin of the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Apollo: Moon Tech Takes a Giant Leap 1960s technology worked for the Apollo program, but next-generation lunar explorers are going to need an upgrade. NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program is working on new and improved tools for NASA's return to the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mt. Redoubt Gives Alaskans a Taste of the Moon By coating the countryside with gritty, abrasive, electrostatically-charged volcanic ash, Mt. Redoubt is giving Alaskans an unexpected taste of what it's like to live on the Moon.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep Solar Minimum How low can it go? The Sun is plunging into the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spacewalkers Test Planetary Protection Concept On March 19th, astronauts onboard the International Space Station checked themselves for microbes before stepping outside on a space walk. It was a first-ever test of planetary protection technology that, one day, could keep humans from contaminating the sands of Mars.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Station Construction Visible Through Backyard Telescopes Space shuttle Discovery launched Sunday, March 15th, on a construction mission to the International Space Station. Perfect timing for sky watchers! The mission coincides with a series of ISS flybys over North American towns and cities. People who go outside after sunset can see the shuttle-station combo with their naked eyes and view the changing outlines of theISS through backyard telescopes.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ares Super-chute NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound"dummy" rocket booster on the Arizona desert--and stopped it before it crashed. It's all part of NASA's plan to return to the Moon.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths In a night launch of stunning beauty, NASA's Kepler spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Friday night, March 6th, on a mission to find Earth-like planets circling other stars.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pretty Sky Alert The crescent Moon and Venus are converging for a conjunction of rare beauty on Friday evening, Feb. 27th.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Otherworldly Solar Eclipse For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution video of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extreme Gamma-ray Burst NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a record-setting gamma-ray burst with the greatest total energy and fastest motions ever seen. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kepler Mission to Hunt for Earth-like Planets Are there other worlds like ours? Are we alone? NASA's Kepler spacecraft is about to begin an unprecedented journey that could answer these ancient questions. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spectacular Photo-op on Saturn Something is about to happen on Saturn that is so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look. Backyard astronomers can see it, too. Four of Saturn's moons will transit Saturn and cast their shadows on the planet's cloudtops at the same time. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gamma-ray Flare Star NASA spacecraft are monitoring blasts of gamma-ray energy from a star 30,000 light years away. Some of the flares have packed more total energy than the sun puts out in 20 years.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astronauts Swab the Decks Even in space, someone has to clean the bathroom. ISS astronauts are using a tricorder-like device to help them 'swab the decks.'Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Comet Approaches Earth Comet Lulin is approaching Earth for a 38-million-mile close encounter later this month. The green double-tailed comet is putting on a fine show for backyard telescopes and could soon become visible to the unaided eye. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mars Technology Helps Create Inauguration Mega-Picture A private photographer has used NASA's Mars technology to create a 1,474 megapixel panoramic photo of President Obama's inauguration. The interactive mega-snapshot has become an international sensation, viewed by more than two million people in 186 countries. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Sees the Dark Side of the Sun Today, NASA researchers announced an event that will transform our view of the Sun and super-charge the field of solar physics for many years to come. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Severe Space Weather--Social and Economic Impacts A new NASA-funded study details what might happen to our modern, high-tech society in the event of a 'super solar flare' followed by an extreme geomagnetic storm. Some of the conclusions might surprise you.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Wonder Rocket Movie The last place you'd expect to find icicles is around the rim of a scalding hot and thundering rocket engine. Yet an engine being used by NASA to develop technologies for next-generation lunar landers has been caught producing icicles of unlikely beauty.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet A team of NASA and university scientists has discovered substantial plumes of methane floating through the atmosphere of Mars. The find indicates Mars is either biologically or geologically active. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Rockets Could Revolutionize Astronomy NASA's next great Moon rocket promises to do more than land astronauts on the Moon. In its spare time, it could revolutionize the science of astronomy. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2 The biggest full Moon of 2009 is coming this weekend. It's a perigee Moon as much as 30% brighter than lesser moons we'll see in the months ahead. Get ready for moonlight!Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixteen Tons of Moondust Sledgehammer-toting scientists are"bustin' rocks" to make the finest possible simulated lunar regolith (a.k.a. fake moondust) in support of NASA's return to the Moon.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA's Gift to Mr. Claus True story: NASA technology saves Claus from a disaster at sea! Christmas (and the sport of fishing) may never be the same. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturn's Crazy Christmas Tilt The planet Saturn is doing something rare and beautiful this holiday season. Find out what in today's story from Science@NASA. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field Discovered NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. The size of the opening and the strange way it forms could overturn long-held ideas of space physics. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Flare Surprise Solar flares are supposed to obliterate everything in their vicinity, yet one of the most powerful flares of the past 30 years has done just the opposite, emitting a beam of pure and unbroken hydrogen atoms. Researchers think this strange event could yield vital clues to the inner workings of solar flares. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Incredible Journey of the JWST From humble beginnings in a Utah beryllium mine to the most advanced laboratories in the world, the mirrors of NASA's next great observatory are taking an incredible journey to space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biggest Full Moon of the Year This Friday's full Moon is the biggest full Moon of the year. It is a 'perigee Moon' as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we've seen earlier in 2008. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return of the Leonids Astronomers from NASA and Caltech are predicting a near-storm of Leonids in 2009 based on a surprising outburst of meteors just two weeks ago. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovered: Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object An international team of researchers has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding Earth from space. The source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must be close to the solar system and it could be made of dark matter. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another Star NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The planet, called 'Fomalhaut b', orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years from Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spectacular Conjunction Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular three-way conjunction with the crescent Moon--a rare gathering some are calling 'the sky show of the year.' Today's story tells when and where to look. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere The solar wind appears to be ripping big chunks of air from the atmosphere of Mars. This could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers NASA astronomers have set up a monitoring station to scan the night sky for unknown or unexpected meteor showers--and they're finding more than they bargained for. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Cycle Update: The Sun Shows Signs of Life A surge of new-cycle sunspots in October may signal the beginning of the end of the ongoing solar minimum.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magnetic Portals Connect Earth to the Sun Researchers have discovered 'magnetic portals' forming high above Earth that can briefly connect our planet to the Sun. Not only are the portals common, one space physicist contends they form twice as often as anyone had previously imagined. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Halloween Sky Show The planets are gathering for spooky sunset sky show on Oct. 31st. Read today's story to find out where to look. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case of the Missing Gamma-ray Bursts Gamma-ray bursts are by far the brightest and most powerful explosions in the Universe, second only to the Big Bang itself. So it might seem a bit surprising that a group of them has gone missing. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brief Mystery: What are Short Gamma-ray Bursts? A curiously short-lived type of gamma-ray burst has astronomers puzzled. Leading experts discuss the clues at today's Gamma-ray Burst Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovered: A New Kind of Pulsar NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new kind of pulsar that hints at a previously unsuspected population of stars waiting to be found in the Milky Way. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gamma-ray Bursts: The Mystery Continues More than four decades after they were discovered, gamma-ray bursts continue to mystify astrophysicists. Next week, experts from 25 countries will converge on Huntsville, Alabama, to discuss and debate clues to the biggest explosions since the Big Bang itself. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts Cosmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts are curiously picky about where they explode. Shunning spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, gamma-ray bursts prefer to 'go off' in oddball star systems that astronomers are just beginning to understand. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Day the World Didn't End Last month when scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider, the world did not come to an end. In today's story, a particle physicist explains why not--and why Earth is safe from black holes when the collider is reactivated in the months ahead. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make 'unbelievably large' telescopes on the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mercury as Never Seen Before NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury on Oct. 6th capturing amazing new images of never-before-seen terrain. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th, and forecasters say it should be a good show. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Works to Improve Short-term Weather Forecasts NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Aimed Directly at Earth Scientists are beginning to unravel the mystery of an extraordinary gamma-ray burst on March 19, 2008, which was visible to the naked eye. It turns out the explosion was aimed directly at Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA to Explore a "Secret Layer" of the Sun NASA researchers are preparing to launch an experimental telescope that can see a layer of the sun thought to be the "birthplace of space weather." Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit the Moon Backyard astronomers watching the Perseid meteor shower last month saw meteoroids hitting not only Earth but also the Moon. They recorded the impacts using backyard telescopes and off-the-shelf cameras, showing that "lunar meteors" are easy targets for amateur observatories and that amateur astronomers can contribute to NASA's lunar research. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Light for the Fermi Space Telescope Today, NASA revealed first light images and announced a new name for its latest space telescope. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Clouds at the Edge of Space Astronauts on board the International Space Station have recently photographed strange electric-blue clouds hovering at the edge of space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living with a Star What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? Don't laugh, it could happen to you, and NASA has a special program to deal with it. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Realm of Earthworms: NASA Gets Down to the Nitty-Gritty NASA scientists are preparing to launch a "flying tractor" with microwave sensors to explore the nitty-gritty realm beneath your feet. 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 Insight: LCROSS Mission Update There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn't shined for millions of years, inky-dark places that may harbor a treasure of great value. NASA's is about to light one of them up. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief History of Solar Sails Have you ever stared up at the night sky, felt a gentle breeze, and wished you could set sail for the stars? Get in line. Many great thinkers from history have had the same idea. This long-held fancy could soon become reality with one solar sail mission on the drawing board and another already on the launching pad, slated to blast off this summer. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Partial Eclipse, Total Fun This Friday, August 1st, millions of people in China will witness a well-publicized total eclipse of the sun. Less widely reported is the partial eclipse, which *billions* of people across a quarter of the globe can observe and enjoy. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights Researchers have discovered what powers brilliant outbursts of Northern Lights: gigantic plasma bullets launched toward Earth by explosions 1/3rd of the way to the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Round is the Sun? Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MESSENGER Returns to Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is returning to Mercury. On Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, the probe will conduct the second of three planned flybys and photograph most of Mercury's remaining unseen surface. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 has become the "blankest year" of the Space Age. Sunspot counts are at a 50-year low, signifying a deep minimum in the 11-year cycle of solar activity. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power. This development has repercussions across the solar system. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pollen Alert! NASA is teaming up with public health organizations to create a pollen alert system that could help people with maladies ranging from common hay fever to serious heart and lung diseases. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spooky Hurricane Science To improve hurricane forecasting, NASA engineers are spending time in a spooky room where 'no one can hear you scream.' Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Plans to Visit the Sun NASA has a daring new mission on the drawing board: Solar Probe Plus, a spacecraft tough enough to visit the sun itself. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted itself to smithereens. Although rings and spheres of material are common in the universe, this one is not like any ring astronomers have ever seen before. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection or "CME" pirouetted over the sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix Lands on Mars NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar GRAIL Gravitationally speaking, the moon is a strange place. Satellites in lunar orbit feel odd, sideways tugs and end up nose down in the moondust. Astronauts standing in the middle of lunar lava seas weigh more than they do standing on the shore. A new NASA mission named GRAIL aims to map the moon's quirky gravity field and thus pave the way for future exploration.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 Explosions on the Moon In 2005, NASA astronomers began watching the Moon to see how often meteoroids crashed into the lunar surface. They've just video-taped their 100th explosion.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galactic Hunt Bags Missing Supernova At long last, astronomers have found one of the Milky Way's mysteriously missing supernovas. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Station Tricorder Astronauts are using a Star Trek tricorder-like device to keep track of microscopic life forms onboard the International Space Station. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planets by the Dozen A NASA-funded survey set to begin in 2008 could dramatically increase the number of known planets outside our solar system. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix Set to Land on Mars NASA's Phoenix lander is getting ready to touch down on Mars and begin an unprecedented investigation of the Red Planet's arctic realm. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Super Solar Flare In September 1859, a solar flare erupted so intense that the explosion itself was visible to the human eye. A ferocious geomagnetic storm ensued in which Northern Lights descended as far south as Cuba, the Bahamas and Hawaii. Meanwhile, telegraph engineers disconnected their batteries and powered communications by electricity from the auroras! Could it happen again? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Explore the Ionosphere (from the safety of your own home) Today, NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can now fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Physics of Whipped Cream An experiment in space has shed new light on the puzzling physics of some everyday substances such as blood, ketchup, motor oil and whipped cream. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moondust and Duct Tape Going to the Moon? Don't forget your duct tape. Thirty-six years ago when Apollo 17 astronauts found themselves a quarter million miles from home with a damaged moonbuggy, a roll of "good old fashioned American gray tape" saved the day. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth's Magnetic Field Does Strange Things to the Moon NASA-supported researchers have realized that strange things may be happening on the full Moon when it gets hit by Earth's magnetic tail. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moondust in the Wind Unlike Earth, the firmament of the moon is directly exposed to charged particles from the sun. What happens to moondust under the onslaught of solar wind? Researchers in a NASA-supported lab are finding some surprising answers. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race Contestants in NASA's 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race have crossed the finish line. And the winner is.... Read today's story to find out who crashed and who triumphed in the adventurous competition. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crescent Moon Alert A crescent moon of perilous beauty is about to appear in the evening sky. The best night to look is Tuesday, April 8th, when the moon joins the Pleiades star cluster for a must-see conjunction. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Solar Cycle Returns Three months ago, a new solar cycle began. This week, however, the sun surprised onlookers with three big sunspots from the previous solar cycle. Strangely enough, this is perfectly normal. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crafty Tricks for Finding Moon Water NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will play some crafty tricks to find water on the moon, such as using starlight to see into deep, dark craters and checking the temperature with a scientific device known as "Diviner." Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked-eye Gamma Ray Burst Two nights ago, astronomers observed a cosmic explosion so intense it was visible to the naked eye from a distance of 7.5 billion light years. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring is Aurora Season For reasons not fully understood by scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes New research by NASA-supported scientists shows how atmospheric gravity waves, the kind we often see rippling in clouds overhead, can hit a thunderstorm and turn it into a deadly tornado. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vanishing Rings of Saturn Amateur astronomers around the world have noticed, something is happening to Saturn. The planet's rings are rapidly narrowing and, if this continues, before long they'll be just a wafer-thin line almost invisible to backyard telescopes. 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Around the clock, even in broad daylight, luminous curtains shimmer and ripple across the sky. News flash: Astronomers have discovered such a planet. Its name is Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avalanches on Mars A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Radar Maps of the Moon New high-resolution radar maps of the Moon's south pole reveal a fantastic land with peaks as high as Mt. McKinley and crater floors four times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who's Orbiting the Moon? Do you know who's orbiting the moon? The answer might surprise you. Find out in today's story from Science@NASA. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Total Lunar Eclipse On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse - the last one until Dec. 2010. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Name that Space Telescope! NASA is inviting members of the general public from around the world to suggest a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extremophile Hunt Begins A team of scientists has just set off to explore a strange lake in Antarctica, which may be home to exotic forms of microscopic life.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surprises from Mercury NASA's Messenger spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed "the Spider," a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers thought. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus and Jupiter Converge The two brightest planets are converging for a beautiful close encounter on Friday morning, February 1st. 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Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites. Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring the Cosmos in Braille Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can't see? The answer lies between the covers of a new NASA-funded book written in Braille, Touch the Invisible Sky. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ulysses Flyby of the Sun's North Pole At a pivotal moment of the solar cycle, the NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft is flying over the sun's mysterious North Pole. 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The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped up on the sun, possibly heralding the start of a new solar cycle. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries about Northern Lights NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites have made some surprising new discoveries about outbursts of Northern Lights and the source of their power. The discoveries include giant magnetic ropes that connect Earth to the Sun and explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Discovery: The Sun is Bristling with X-ray Jets Astronomers using Japan's Hinode spacecraft have discovered a major new form of solar activity: abundant x-ray jets. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asteroid Shower Mark your calendar: The best meteor shower of 2007 peaks on Friday, December 14th. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Drought Forecasts From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: "I wish it would rain!" Technically, what they should be wishing for is "more streamflow." Find out why in today's story. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chandra Discovers a Cosmic Cannonball Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered one of the fastest stars ever seen--a "cosmic cannonball" that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watch Out for Flying Moondust New research by NASA scientists shows that moondust kicked up by the jets of lunar landers can go on a fantastic journey, completely circling the Moon before settling back to the ground. This interesting phenomenon may affect the planning of lunar outposts and other activities as NASA prepares its return to the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mars Doubles in Brightness During the past month, Mars has doubled in brightness and now it is putting a nice show for backyard stargazers. A good night to look is Nov. 26th when Mars has an eye-catching close encounter with the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bargain Basement Satellites NASA scientists have developed a fast and easy-to-build satellite named FASTSAT that could accelerate the pace of space exploration. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moon Rocket Parachute Tests a Success How do you bring a 200,000-pound rocket booster back to Earth after it catapults its payload toward the moon? NASA has answered that question with a successful test of a giant "moon rocket" parachute in the Arizona desert. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Space Weather over Africa Scientists are converging on Ethiopia this week to discuss a new and strange form of space weather over Africa. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Blink of a Hurricane's Eye NASA-supported scientists are working on a new device to help predict the sudden transformation of tropical storms to deadly hurricanes. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fantastic Skies of Orphan Stars Do you love gazing at a starry night sky? Nothing you've ever seen on Earth could prepare you for the fantastic skies of some "orphan stars" just discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Lakes Discovered on Titan The Cassini spacecraft has discovered three new lakes near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan. These strange bodies are filled not with water but liquid methane and ethane. Researchers are also studying a lake near Titan's north pole larger than Lake Superior. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Atmospheric Waves Sighted Over Iowa Last week, cameras in Iowa captured a giant atmospheric wave passing over Des Moines--see the movie in today's story. Atmospheric scientists believe these waves, called undular bores, may be more common and important than previously thought. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tones from Deep Space Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik kicked off the Space Age, an ultra-modern probe heading for Pluto is using retro Sputnik-like tones to communicate with Earth. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sun Rips off a Comet's Tail Earlier this year, Comet Encke was passing a little too close to the Sun when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit the comet and ripped off its tail. NASA's STEREO spacecraft was watching and recorded a must-see movie featured in today's story. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Lunar Impact Observatory Researchers from the Marshall Space Flight Center have built a new "lunar impact" observatory in rural north Georgia. They're using it for their own cutting edge research and sharing the facility with local middle- and high-school students. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voyage to the Giant Asteroids--Liftoff! NASA's Dawn spacecraft has left Earth on a mission to explore the giant asteroids Ceres and Vesta. Today's Science@NASA story explains the scientific reasons for making the trip. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blasting a Hole in a Comet: Take 2 Two years ago, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft blasted a hole in Comet Tempel 1, offering researchers their first look inside a comet. One small problem: The cloud of debris was so thick no one could clearly see the crater. But now the dust has cleared and another NASA spacecraft is returning to the scene to examine the hole Deep Impact wrought. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cave Skylights Spotted on Mars NASA's Mars orbiters have spotted "skylights" apparently leading to cavernous underground spaces on Mars. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Exploding Lunar Eclipse On Tuesday morning, Aug. 28th, a team of astronomers and engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center will attempt something never done before--to observe meteoroids hitting the Moon and exploding during a lunar eclipse. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurtling Toward Mars Earth and Mars are rapidly converging. Relative speed: 22,000 mph. Contrary to rumor, Mars is not about to swell to the size of a full Moon, but there is something eerie and Martian to look for in the night sky next week. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basil Orbits Earth When she blasted off onboard the space shuttle last week, teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan carried millions of basil seeds to the ISS. Soon she'll return millions more "space seeds" for students on Earth to study. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Star with a Comet's Tail Astronomers have discovered something they've never seen before: a star with a tail like a comet. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Of Skunks and Telescopes This human interest story describes a night in the life of scientists and engineers working 'round the clock to test NASA's next great space telescope. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Lights: The 2007 Aurigid Meteor Shower On Sept. 1st, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors could spill across the skies of western North America--or not. Forecasters are divided about what will happen next month when Earth runs into an ancient stream of debris from Comet Kiess. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dreamy Lunar Eclipse Mark your calendar: On Tuesday morning, August 28th, there's going to be a dreamy, colorful, total eclipse of the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Piranha Black Holes Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have caught some supermassive black holes engaged in a piranha-like feeding frenzy. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Throttling Back to the Moon Accelerating from 0 to 60, then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn full-on or full-off with no in-between. And that can be a problem--namely, how do you land this thing? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great Perseids The Perseid meteor shower is coming, and experts say it should be a great show. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures of ASTRO and NextSat A pair of robots named ASTRO and NextSat have been working together in Earth orbit, docking, undocking, flying around and refueling, as if they have minds of their own. Their adventures may herald a revolution in the way we explore space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Moon Illusion For sky watchers in the northern hemisphere, this weekend is the best time of the year to experience the mysterious and beautiful Moon Illusion. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Risky Descent NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the Mars Rover science team expect it to provide valuable science. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking Big About Space Telescopes NASA's next Moon rocket is still on the drawing board, but already scientists are dreaming up big new things to do with it--such as launching giant telescopes into space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voyage to the Giant Asteroids This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids--one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova. The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tether Origami A Japanese tether of novel construction could unfold new opportunities in space. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Awesome Upheaval Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered "an exceptionally dramatic event" in the nearby Universe. They're not sure what caused it, but they've narrowed it down to two exciting possibilites. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Moon over North America This Thursday evening, May 31st, the moon over North America will become full for the second time in the month of May. According to folklore, that makes it a blue moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Breakthrough in Solar Storm Forecasting A scientist using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Flyby Today when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flies by Venus en route to Mercury, the craft will shoot a laser beam into Venus' clouds, among other experiments, to learn more about Earth's "evil twin." Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Equivalence Principle In the folklore of physics, no story is better known than the tale of Galileo dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and proving that gravity accelerates all objects equally regardless of their masses or composition. This is called the"equivalence principle," and it is a cornerstone of modern physics. But was Galileo correct?Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing"Sick" Spaceships Wherever humans go, microorganisms follow--and that includes space. Bacteria and other microbes living onboard spaceships may not only cause health problems for the crew, but also cause the spaceship itself to malfunction.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Brightest Supernova Ever Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have recorded the brightest supernova ever seen.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Methane Blast NASA-supported scientists and engineers have successfully tested a methane-powered rocket engine. The firing was not only remarkably beautiful but also may herald a new type of spacecraft that one day roams the outer solar system gathering fuel from planets and moons that it visits.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fantastic Flyby Today, NASA released stunning new images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its recent flyby of Jupiter. Highlights include a movie of an erupting volcano on Jupiter's moon Io and the best-ever color photo of Jupiter's"Little Red Spot."Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noxious Lightning Lightning is more than just heat and light: it's a chemical factory that produces a natural pollutant called"NOx" that can affect both local air quality and global climate. NASA scientists are developing new ways to monitor lightning NOx from Earth orbit.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Massive Explosion on the Sun Last December, Japan's Hinode spacecraft observed a massive explosion on the sun. Researchers analyzing the data have now produced a must-see movie of the flare's magnetic underpinnings.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dusty Hurricanes What happens to a hurricane when it gets hit by a dust storm? This is an important question because Atlantic hurricanes are born not far from the Sahara desert. To find the answer, NASA scientists recently flew into a dusty hurricane. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Hole Eclipse NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed a remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole, allowing a disk of hot matter swirling around the hole to be measured for the first time.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lab-on-a-Chip Works! A miniature biological laboratory important to the future of space exploration has just been tested successfully onboard the International Space Station. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. 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The must-see photo is featured in today's story from Science@NASA.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get thispodcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast Off for Orbital Express The Orbital Express mission to test cutting-edge automated rendezvous and docking technologies blasted off from Cape Canaveral last night.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Ma! No (Human) Hands! Two satellites slated for launch this week are heading for an extraordinary rendezvous in Earth orbit. The name of the mission is Orbital Express and its goal is to test futuristic technologies key to the exploration of the moon and Mars.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of Rain and Snow People encounter rain and snow every day, and scientists have studied precipitation for centuries, yet it's amazing how much we still don't know about water that falls from the sky.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grand Theft Pluto En route to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about to fly by Jupiter, and while it's there, steal some velocity for the trip ahead.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Safe Place The Ulysses spacecraft has discovered that there is no place in the inner solar system completely safe from radiation storms.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Floods! Fire! SERVIR! When deadly floods struck Panama last November, a space-age"situation room" named SERVIR helped save lives.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moon is a Harsh Witness In this story, planetary geologist Paul Spudis discusses some of the mysteries of Earth that might be solved by returning to the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Transient Phenomena NASA astronomers have been watching the night side of the Moon for more than a year, and they've just released highlight videos of some of the surprising things they've seen.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metric Moon It's official: the Moon is on the metric system. NASA is returning to the Moon, and the agency has decided to use metric units for all future lunar operations.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Geminids NASA astronomers watched at least five Geminid meteoroids hit the Moon and explode during the recent Geminid meteor shower. Soon, they plan to release software that will help amateur astronomers see these explosions for themselves.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website True Fakes: Scientists Make Simulated Moondust NASA is returning to the Moon, but first NASA engineers would like to test designs for lunar landers and rovers on genuine lunar soil. Just one problem: There's not enough real moondust to go around. So scientists are making some"true fakes."Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower The best meteor shower of the year peaks this week on Thursday, Dec. 14th.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Pettit Goes to Antarctica Astronaut Don Pettit has just landed in the meteorite-rich ice fields of Antarctica where he plans to launch a series of edgy and entertaining science experiments to be shared with the general public.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Leonid Strikes The Moon is getting hit by meteoroids more often than anyone expected. That's the tentative conclusion of astronomers who recently saw two Leonids hit the Moon and explode.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Paradigm for Lunar Orbits Orbiting the Moon is tricky. There's a big planet nearby (Earth) that tugs on satellites and destabilizes their orbits. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crabs Give Blood for Space Travel Soon, astronauts onboard the ISS will test a high-tech medical device that uses primitive enzymes from horseshoe crabs to diagnose human illness.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return of the Leonids Earth is heading for a cloud of comet dust that could produce an outburst of Leonid meteors on Nov. 19th. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Moon Still Alive? Conventional wisdom says the Moon is dead. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. Today in the journal Nature, a team of scientists announced evidence for fresh geologic activity on the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bizarre Lunar Orbits Mysterious concentrations of mass in the Moon's ancient lava seas disturb the orbits of Moon-circling spacecraft. NASA is taking these"mascons" into account as the agency prepares to return to the Moon.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Light for Hinode A new space telescope onboard Japan's Hinode spacecraft is beaming back some fantastic images of the sun. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sci-fi Life Support Researchers are putting the finishing touches on a new life support system for the ISS that seems to come right out of the pages of science fiction. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Moonlight When the Harvest Moon rises on Oct. 6th, go outside. You may notice a few puzzling things.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new realm of space, and it's beaming back some surprises. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Electric Ice Imagine looking inside a million clouds. That's what NASA researchers have done using the TRMM satellite to explore the strange connection between lightning and ice. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Sentinels With astronauts returning to the Moon, reliable forecasts of space weather are more important than ever. A new proposed mission called "Solar Sentinels" would surround the sun with spacecraft to keep an eye on solar activity. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SMART-1 to Crash the Moon A European spaceship is about to crash into the Moon. Amateur astronomers may be able to observe the impact. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martian Misinformation Contrary to a wide-spread report, Mars will not look as big as the full Moon on August 27th. In fact, the red planet will be nearly invisible to the human eye. There is, however, something real to see on August 27th--a morning alignment of Venus and Saturn.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mariner Meteor Mystery, Solved? In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm. Where did the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backward Sunspot A strange little sunspot may herald the coming of one of the stormiest solar cycles in decades. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perseid Earthgrazers When the Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th, the nearly-full Moon is going to spoil the show. But there might be something to see before the Moon rises: a side-show of Perseid Earthgrazers. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar X Games The X Games are underway in Los Angeles. One day--who knows?--they might be held on the Moon. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birthplace of Hurricanes NASA researchers are joining an international campaign to catch hurricanes in the act of being born. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crash Landing on the Moon At the dawn on the Space Age, the first spaceship to reach the Moon crashed. Forty-seven years later, NASA plans to do it again. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity The fourth installment of Science@NASA's Apollo Chronicles explains why Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin couldn't fall asleep in the Sea of Tranquillity. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond the Fireworks Who needs fireworks? As night falls on the 4th of July, a moon, a giant planet and a spaceship will emerge from the twilight for a sky show of their own. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Swirls Pale swirls on the surface of the Moon have been puzzling researchers for decades. Fresh clues are in the offing as NASA prepares a new round of lunar exploration. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Meteoroid Hits the Moon Last month, astronomers watched a meteoroid blast a hole in the lunar Sea of Clouds. Their video of the event is a must-see.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corkscrew Asteroids A tiny asteroid corkscrewing around Earth for the past seven years is about to leave the neighborhood.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good News and a Puzzle Earth's ozone layer appears to be on the road to recovery, but the reasons why aren't fully understood. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors A 22-year veteran of prospecting and mining on Earth has some no-nonsense advice for lunar explorers. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Search of Crater Chains What happens when a fragmented comet hits the surface of a planet? It makes a chain of craters. Researchers are looking for evidence of these crater chains here on Earth.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long Range Solar Forecast The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, which has important implications for future solar activity: Solar Cycle 25 peaking in 2022 could be one of the weakest in centuries. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breathing Moonrocks The Moon has plentiful oxygen for future astronauts. It's lying on the ground. NASA researchers have developed a device that can extract breathable oxygen from lunar soil.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pull of Jupiter Right now, Jupiter is having a close encounter with Earth. The giant planet is very bright in the night sky and looks terrific through backyard telescopes.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sky is Falling Every day the Moon is hit by a surprising number of meteoroids. NASA researchers are poking through old Apollo data to find out if these projectiles pose a threat to future explorers. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunar Dust Buster NASA researchers have built a device that picks up moondust and takes it for a ride on an electrodynamic wave--like a surfer on the ocean. Their invention could come in handy when astronauts return to the Moon.Please vote for this podcast atPodcastAlley!Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Meets a Planet Named George This month, Venus can guide you to a naked-eye planet that ancient astronomers inexplicably failed to see. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Search of Water, NASA Spacecraft to Hit the Moon NASA today announced that a small spacecraft named LCROSS has been selected to travel to the moon to look for precious water ice at the lunar south pole in October 2008. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planets around Dead Stars NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a disk of dusty debris surroundung a long-dead star. It is the kind of disk where planets are born, raising the possibility that second-generation planets can form around stars after they go supernova. 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One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein stunned physicists with his out-of-this-world ideas. 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Naps NASA-supported sleep researchers are learning new and surprising things about naps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Approaching Mars Earth and Mars will have a breathtaking close encounter in October 2005. 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. 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