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Adler Night and Day

Summary: Adler Night and Day features exclusive interviews with experts in astronomy and space science.

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 Episode 122 - September 13, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:05

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning September 13, 2011 through September 26, 2011. In this episode: Earth is surrounded... by space junk! What is it and can we do anything about it?

 Episode 121 - August 30, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:18

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning August 30, 2011 through September 12, 2011. In this episode: The Dawn Mission has reached Vesta! Wait, what's Vesta?! Learn about this awesome mission and the data it's collecting!

 Episode 120 - August 16, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:53

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning August 16, 2011 through August 29, 2011.. In this episode: We're talking to Dr. Rachel Klima about reflective spectroscopy and minerals in the solar system.

 Episode 119 - August 2, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:50

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning August 2, 2011 through August 15, 2011. In this episode: We're talking Dr. Larry Taylor about why we ought to head back to the Moon. Dr. Taylor is the Director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee and he was involved in the Apollo program. Dr. Taylor has also been involved in numerous lunar science missions.

 Episode 118 - July 19, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:26

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning July 19, 2011 through August 1, 2011. In this episode: We're talking about what we've learned from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Dr. Petro has not only worked on the LRO mission, he has also been involved with the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and Chandrayaan-1

 Episode 117 - July 5, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:53

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning July 05, 2011 through July 18, 2011. In this episode: Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch on July 8, 2011. This launch will mark the last for the shuttle program. Find out more about this historic mission and crew.

 Episode 116 - June 21, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:05

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning June 21, 2011 through July 4, 2011. In this episode: What are comets? What are they made of and how come they look like that? Learn about these small-bodied objects and find out why they're important.

 Episode 115 - June 7, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:10

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning June 7, 2011 through June 20, 2011. In this episode: Are there really places in our solar system that have more water than Earth?! What makes Earth special in the grand scheme of things? Learn what sets us apart from other objects in our solar system and what find out just how much water is in our home system.

 Episode 114 - May 24, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:28

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning May 24, 2011 through June 6, 2011. In this episode: We're talking about Saturn and its many moons. What did we learn from the Huygens spacecraft about Titan and what are we learning about Saturn and its moons from Cassini?

 Episode 113 - May 10, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:04

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning May 10, 2011 through May 23, 2011. In this episode: The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) is one of two instruments contributed by NASA to India's first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1. M3, a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, has provided the first mineralogical map of the lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution.

 Episode 112 - April 26, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:20

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning April 26, 2011 through May 9, 2011. In this episode: We're talking about cosmology and all the big, big questions!

 Episode 111 - April 12, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:43

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning April 12, 2011 through April 26, 2011. In this episode: The Zooniverse is expanding! We welcome back Chris Lintott, Principle Investigator of the Zooniverse project. Find out what's new and maybe you'll discover your Zoo!

 Episode 110 - March 29, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:46

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning March 29, 2011 through April 11, 2011. In this episode: MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) entered Mercury's orbit on March 17th. MESSENGER intends to answer many questions about our innermost planet. In particular, some of those questions are about the planet's core and magnetic field.

 Episode 109 - March 15, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:59

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning March 15, 2011 through March 28, 2011. In this episode: Could a house really be lofted by a bunch of balloons? Will we ever have sonic screwdrivers? We're talking about the science in some of our favorite television and movies!

 Episode 108 - March 1, 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:52

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning March 1, 2011 through March 14, 2011. In this episode: Former astronaut and Chicago native, Joan Higginbotham joins Adler Night and Day. She talks about how she ended up working at NASA and the route she took to become an astronaut.

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