Call in!
2-4 pm Eastern
1-800-989-8255
1-800-989-TALK
Write us!
Science Friday
4 W. 43rd Street
Suite 306
New York, NY 10036
scifri@sciencefriday.com
Archived Audio:
X Prize
RealAudio format
Windows Media format
mp3 download
Mars
RealAudio format
Windows Media format
mp3 download
airplane air
RealAudio format
Windows Media format
mp3 download
NPR audio help
podcast (what's
this?)
Related Links:
X
PRIZE Foundation
Google
Lunar X Prize
San
Jose Mercury News - Google's moon shot: Founders hope to ...
Google
Backs $25 Million ‘Lunar X Prize ’ - New York Times
Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter : Home
NASA Mars site
An
Airplane Cabin as a Test Tube for Irritants - New York Times
Airplane
Air Quality Worsened By Skin Oil Interacting With Ozone
Ozone-Initiated
Chemistry in an Occupied Simulated Aircraft Cabin
The residual ice cap of Mars' south pole (in white) tops the smooth layered deposits that overlie the cratered southern highlands. This image is a shaded relief mosaic combined with color, using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. [Image courtesy of NASA/MOLA Science Team]
The east-facing walls of an unnamed crater in Sisyphi Planum, near the south polar region. Gullies, as well as mantle terrain and polygons are visible; these features suggest that at some point in time, liquid and ice may have been present at and near the surface Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
In the 1960s, the U.S. and Soviet Union were in a race to the moon. Now, this generation has its own moon race: the Lunar X-Prize. In this hour, we'll talk with X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis--he'll tell us about th X Prize competition to send robots to the moon. Winning the competition, which is backed by money from Google, could mean as much as $30 million for the winning team.
Next, from the moon to Mars--we'll find out whether the latest Mars orbiter has detected any signs of water, and what future missions to the Red Planet should look for. We'll talk with scientists who have just published scientific papers outlining the results of orbiting observations of Mars.
Finally, who hasn't gotten off a plane blaming the stale cabin air for their stuffy nose, dry throat, and headache? A new study says passengers are partly to blame for bad in-flight air. It's not all your fault, however - new research says that ozone brought into the cabin while a plane is in flight may combine with skin oils and other materials in the cabin to make an airborne witches brew of potentially irritating chemicals. Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (2-3 Eastern). Teachers, find more information about using Science Friday as a classroom resource in the Kids' Connection.
Guests:
Peter H. Diamandis
Chairman & CEO
X PRIZE Foundation
Santa Monica, California
**************
Alfred McEwen
Director, Planetary Image Research
Lab
Professor, Planetary Sciences
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Maria Zuber
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics
Head, Department of Earth, Atmospheric,
and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
*****************
Charles Weschler
Visiting Professor, International Centre
for Indoor Environment and Energy
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Adjunct Professor, Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Member, Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences Institute
University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey / Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey
Books/Articles Discussed:
(find books discussed on previous broadcasts)
This segment produced by Karin Vergoth