January 30, 2004, Hour One: Space and Physics Update

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Hour One: Space and Physics Update

Join Ira Flatow and his guests in this hour of Science Friday as they check in with the Mars probes. What are the twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, learning about the geology of the Martian surface?

Then, we'll discuss some news in particle physics -- the possible creation of a state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, thought to have last been seen a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang.

Finally, we'll talk with the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute about NASA's plan to cancel a scheduled servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Guests:
Matt Golombek
Geologist
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasedena, California

Barbara Jacak
Member, PHENIX collaboration, RHIC
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Professor, Physics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

Steven Beckwith
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Director, Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

This segment produced by Charles Bergquist

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