Synopsis
Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view. The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact
Episodes
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285-Mars Impactors
30/09/2016 Duration: 02minA given piece of ground on Mars is more likely to be hit by a space rock than is an equal sized area on planet Earth. Someday Martian tourists may be treated to super meteor storms.
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284-Dark Trails
27/09/2016 Duration: 02minAfter a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR.
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282-Biggest Rocket
20/09/2016 Duration: 02minNASA's Space Launch System Core Stage will start a new age of space exploration,
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281-Starlight Walking
16/09/2016 Duration: 02minExperience the age old sense of wonder which happens when a human looks into deep space and thinks about what might be out there.
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277-Old Girl
02/09/2016 Duration: 02minImagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring one thing at time being equipped with a camera with 100 million pixels.
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275-No Place Like Home
26/08/2016 Duration: 02minAstronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space suit.
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274-New Horizons Continues
23/08/2016 Duration: 02minAfter a successful trip through the Pluto system, the New Horizons Spacecraft is heading towards an even more distant object.
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273-Hunt for Planet9
19/08/2016 Duration: 02minEvidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.
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272-Big Eye
16/08/2016 Duration: 02minA giant telescope, under construction, will give us a picture of how objects in the Universe change with time.
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271-Race to Mars
12/08/2016 Duration: 02minThe red planet is teaming with human activity and may soon need air traffic control.
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270-Space Opals
09/08/2016 Duration: 02minOpals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth
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269-Gamma Ray Eyes
05/08/2016 Duration: 02minWith gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.
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268-Mars Weather Report
02/08/2016 Duration: 02minPrepare yourself for interesting weather. You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.
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266-Colliding Planets
26/07/2016 Duration: 02minCollisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.