SciFri Radio: Planetary and Earth Sciences

SciFri Radio: A Quake That Shook the World?
Last week's powerful earthquake in Chile may have shifted the Earth's axis and changed the length of a day.

SciFri Radio: Science and the Budget
This week, President Obama unveiled his proposed budget for 2011. We'll talk about how the proposed budget might affect science.

SciFri Radio: Mars Rover to Rove No Longer
This week, NASA announced that Spirit, one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, appears to be permanently stuck in Martian soil, and that the rover...

SciFri Radio: Inside the AGU Meeting
We'll get highlights from the scientific meeting of the American Geophysical Union, going on this week.

SciFri Radio: Free The Rover
NASA scientists are still trying to free the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in Martian soil since April.

SciFri Radio: Lunar Impact Mission Update
Friday, NASA scientists announced that they had found 'a significant amount' of lunar water through the recent LCROSS lunar impact mission.

SciFri Radio: Surveying the Heliosphere
A series of journal articles published this week draw a new picture of our solar system's heliosphere, the bubble carved out in the interstellar...

SciFri Radio: Moon in Review
Last week, NASA crashed a probe into the surface of the moon in search of water, just weeks after two other teams reported finding their own clues...

SciFri Radio: A One-Way Trip To Mars?
Ira talks with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about whether a human expedition to Mars should involve a return trip to the Earth.

SciFri Radio: Hurricane Forecast
What can we expect from this year's hurricane season?

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SciFri Newsbriefs: Planetary and Earth Sciences

Newsbrief: Next Great Quake?
Are scientists getting any better at earthquake prediction?

Newsbrief: Gravity Anomaly Solved
The gravitational pull near Hudson Bay, Canada is unusually weak. A new study explains why.

Newsbrief: Tiny Time Capsule
A tiny ancient crystal is packing the geologic history of the Earth

Newsbrief: So long, Ulysses!
The sun-studying spacecraft is about to end its epic odyssey.