Transits of Venus: A Popular Account

Summary: Chris takes a break from fighting Polar Bears in Svalbard to join Rob for a podcast-recording Google Hangout. We discuss the Transit of Venus, Martian meteorites and the impending collision of the Andromeda Galaxy with our own. NASA has been given some free telescopes and North Carolina has banned sea level rises. This MP3 Link Episode #36. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: Hinode’s Venus Transit images (above): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/venus_transit_hinode.html Mars methane in a meteorite: http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4791/mars-methane-lessons-in-a-meteorite Collision with Andromeda: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/20/full/ North Carolina makes sea rise illegal : http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/ Free telescopes for NASA? http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/06/free-spy-telescopes-come-to-nasa-with-a-cost.html Data journalism awards : http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/31/data-journalism-awards-winners How does the Internet work? http://boingboing.net/2012/06/06/fing-internet-how-does-it.html Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).