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The Sky at Night - July 2008
Published on 2008-07-07 14:31:00
This month's programme was hosted by Chris Lintott from the Mars Phoenix mission control headed by Professor Peter Smith.The Phoenix lander was sent to the northern polar region of Mars and landed in Green Valley of Vastitas Borealis on May 25th. The main mission was to find water ice beneath the Martian soil. On landing, the retrorockets of the lander displaced the top soil to reveal ice beneath.The landing site is similar to the areas of permafrost at Earth's northern latitudes as the land loo
The Sky at Night - June 2008
Published on 2008-06-07 07:50:00
This month's programme had a brief update on the Mars Phoenix landing. The programme then went on to discuss returns to Saturn and Jupiter to look for signs of life amongst their satellites. Professor John Zarnecki of The Open University championed a return to Titan to follow up the findings of Huygens probe and look for the building blocks of life.Professor Michele Dougherty of Imperial College argued a return to Jupiter to look for life on the Galilean satellites. In particular, a visit to Eur
The Sky at Night - May 2008
Published on 2008-05-05 04:13:00
The May edition of The Sky at Night was titled "You Just Don't Know" and was a round table discussion about the limits of human knowledge. Around the table sat Sir Patrick Moore as "Devil's Advocate" due to it being the 666th edition of the programme, Dr Chris Lintott, Dr Kate Land, and Professor Gerry Gilmore.The assembled brain's trust of astronomers discussed the known universe and attempted to guess what was left to be understood. The viewer was reminded of the current theory of the Big Bang
