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Index to our previous shows
December 24, 2005 - Holiday Readings
December 6, 2005 - Laurie R. King
November 20, 2005 - Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
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On Saturday - December 24th, 2005 - Hour 25 brought you readings of holiday stories with a fantastic twist.
Many of the traditions of Christmas involve magic and the supernatural. It is said that animals have the ability to speak at the hour past midnight, toys can talk and move about as well, and ghosts often appear at the stroke of midnight. {Is it any coincidence that the magic hour just after midnight is often called the twenty-fifth hour of the day?}
We at Hour 25 also have our own tradition of bringing you stories of the season with magical, science fictional or ghostly elements. This year we have one story involving a holiday ghost and another featuring a vampire that comes out on Christmas eve.
So enjoy our stories but remember that the holiday season is a time for reflection, for charity, and for cherishing the time spent with the ones we love. For as was said in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, "When happiness comes to a party, be sure to give it a comfortable seat."
From all of us at Hour 25, we wish you the very best for this holiday season. May all your dreams come true in the coming year.
Tonight's Stories
The Haunted Mill by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Suzanne Gibson.
The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet, read by Warren W. James.
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- Click here for a few words introducing the next part of our show.{1:11}
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- Click here for the show's closing.{1:59}
- For more Hour 25 holiday readings you can listen to our Christmas shows from 2004,
2003, 2002,
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Space News
Information about SpaceX and their attempts to launch the Falcon 1 can be found at their Official Web Site.
For more information about the Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa be sure to go to the project's Official Web Site or this web site maintained by the Planetary Society.
Space News - Mars
For more information about the Mars Exploration Rovers be sure to check out the MER Web Site at JPL or this Mars Rover site at Cornell University. You can also get information about the MER mission by reading the News Updates posted by Dr. Steve Squyres, the project's Principal Investigator.
To learn more about the Mars Express mission you can go to this ESA Mars Express Web Site, this Mars Express Web Page from JPL, this NSSDC Mars Express Web Page, or this Web Page from Mars News.Com.
For more information about the Exploration of Mars be sure to go to the JPL Mars Exploration Site, the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA Ames, or the Mars Missions Web Site at the Planetary Society.
Information about the data returned by previous Mars missions can be found at this Mars Web Page at the NSSDC.
Information about the Phoenix Mission to Mars can be found at this Press Release from the University of Arizona. You can view a 3D picture of the Mars Phoenix spacecraft here.
For more Mars news be sure to check out the Mars News.Com Web Site.
Percival Lowell did much to shape our ideas about Mars in the early years of the 20th Century. You can learn more about his work by reading this on-line copy of his 1895 book Mars.
Space News - The Cassini Mission to Saturn
Much information about the Cassini mission can be found at the Project's Official Web Site at JPL.
JPL is constantly releasing pictures from Cassini. You can find them by going to this JPL Web Page.
Additional information about the Cassini mission can be found at this ESA
Web Site.
The University of Arizona Web Site for the imaging system used to take the Huygens pictures of Titan has much information about how they were obtained and processed as well as a collection of processed and unprocessed images.
The Huygens probe carried a microphone and recorded the various sounds that it heard while descending to the surface of Titan. You can listen to those sounds at this Web Page sponsored by the Planetary Society.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
Links relating to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia can be found here.
The Reusable Launch & Space Vehicle News Web Site Web Page that is part of the Hobby Space Web Site is a really good place to watch for news about, well... Reusable Launch Vehicles and related subjects. I check it out just about every day and often find news there that doesn't show up anywhere else. Give it a look. {And while you're there be sure to check out some of the site's other pages. Wow! Is there a lot of information there.}
The Space Today Web Site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now Web Site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch Web Site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
ISS News
The Florida Today Web Site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station Web Page or the Boeing Web Page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link Web Site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA Web Page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
Space Related Organizations
If you are interested in learning more about current space activities there are many local and national organizations you might want to know about. Joining these organizations and taking part in their activities is a good way to stay abreast of things going on in space as well as a way to show your support for those activities. Listed below are some of those organizations.
The Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement has long been place for persons living in the Los Angeles area to gather and discuss the promise of space. Be sure to check out their Web Site for information about their meetings and other activities.
The Orange County Space Society is another Los Angeles area organization that provides a focal point for persons who are interested in space developments to get together and share their ideas. They have created a number of displays explaining the history and importance of space exploration that have appeared at various public events. Be sure to check their Web Site for information about their meetings and other events.
The National Space Society has a long history of being an advocate for a vigorous space program and provides much information to its members through their magazine and Web Site.
The Space Frontier Foundation is a strong advocate for a non-governmental space program and serves as a focal point for much activity in that arena. Their annual conference in Los Angeles during the Fall is a great way to find out what is happening in the non-government space arena.
The Space Access Society is focused on reducing the cost of going into space by promoting non-governmental launch vehicle programs. Their annual conference in the spring is a major source of information on non-traditional launch vehicle activities.
The Planetary Society is focused on the exploration of the Solar System and has a wealth of information for its members and others.
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On Tuesday - December 6th, 2005 - our guest on Hour 25 was Laurie R. King chatting with us about her newest Mary Russell book, Locked Rooms, as well as the art and craft of writing.
Once again Laurie has written a tale that transports us back to an earlier, but not simpler, age when gaslights and hansom cabs were giving way to electric lights and motor cars. A time when the world was a stage for the adventures of Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes.
In this book we are taken back to San Francisco during prohibition to solve a mystery from Mary's past that dates back to the great Earthquake of 1906. As in all of Laurie's books her well crafted characters move though a plot that is both intricate and believable. Clues are hidden in plain sight, and sometimes in obscure places, but in the end you are left with the satisfying taste of another well crafted mystery.
Highly recommended.
Dateline: Saturn/Enceladus
Information about the Cassini mission can be found at the Project's Official Web Site at JPL. Pictures taken by the Cassini spacecraft can be found by going to this JPL Web Page.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
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The image above shows a map of the surface temperatures on Enceladus that was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft this summer. The colors correspond to various temperatures, with the yellows and reds being the highest temperatures and the blues and violets the coldest.
The equatorial temperatures are about what the scientists expected, approximately 80 degrees Kelvin, -315 degrees Fahrenheit. But the temperatures at the South pole are much warmer than anticipated with highs of 85 Kelvin or -305 degrees. That is about 27 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than expected. The data also suggests that small areas of the South pole could have temperatures as high as 110 degrees Kelvin, -261 degrees Fahrenheit.
Something strange is happening on - or in - Enceladus.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL
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Presented above is a false color image of Enceladus showing the 'Tiger Stripes' in the South polar region. The color enhancement used for this image makes those stripes have a greenish color so they will be easier to see. Analyses of these features suggest that they are caused by some form of active geologic process. {Which is quite a perplexing issue, since a world the size of Enceladus should be geologically inactive.}
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Here is another false color image giving you a closer look at those 'Tiger Stripes' and superimposing temperature measurements on top of the image. This shows that the stripes are noticeably warmer than the surrounding terrain. This suggests that warm material - most likely ice - is upwelling from within Enceladus and flowing out onto the moon's surface.
Please note that the temperatures shown on the image above are given in degrees Kelvin, which measure temperatures relative to absolute zero and not relative to the freezing point of water. The warmest temperatures - over one of the 'Tiger Stripes' - are between -296 and -299 degrees Fahrenheit, while the surrounding regions are at temperatures of -326 to -313.
I guess in this case, warm really is a relative term.
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And here we have evidence of water vapor streaming off into space above the South pole of Enceladus.
This picture was taken when Enceladus was between the Sun and the Cassini spacecraft. When viewed from this geometry, small particles are particularly effective at something the scientists refer to as 'forward scattering'. This greatly enhances the amount of light being reflected into the spacecraft's camera. {Human hair is also very effective at forward scattering and this is why glamor photographers like to position a light behind their subject. It makes their head and hair seem to glow.}
Scientists are analyzing this and other pictures and data to understand just how much material is streaming off into space, what its temperature and composition might be, and what forces could be heating the interior of Enceladus and causing this celestial water fountain.
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And here you have a false color enhanced version of the preceding image. This picture shows more detail within the flow and can be used in the process of estimating the numbers and sizes of the particles spewing up from the South pole of Enceladus.
And it makes a way cool picture.
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Links for more information relating to this week's show
Laurie R. King
You can learn more about Laurie R. King by visiting her Official Web Site or her publisher's web site at Random House for her earlier book Justice Hall.
You can learn more about Laurie R. King and her books by visiting any of the various web sites dedicated to her works. You might start your explorations with Laurie R. King
and the Phenomenon of Mary Russell, and to find out what other people have been saying about Laurie's books you can go to the Ex Libris Reviews Web Site.
Space News from this show
Information about SpaceX and the upcoming launch of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle can be found at their Official Web Site.
For more information about the Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa be sure to go to the project's Official Web Site or this web site maintained by the Planetary Society.
Space News - Mars
For more information about the Mars Exploration Rovers be sure to check out the MER Web Site at JPL or this Mars Rover site at Cornell University. You can also get information about the MER mission by reading the News Updates posted by Dr. Steve Squyres, the project's Principal Investigator.
To learn more about the Mars Express mission you can go to this ESA Mars Express Web Site, this Mars Express Web Page from JPL, this NSSDC Mars Express Web Page, or this Web Page from Mars News.Com.
For more information about the Exploration of Mars be sure to go to the JPL Mars Exploration Site, the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA Ames, or the Mars Missions Web Site at the Planetary Society.
Information about the data returned by previous Mars missions can be found at this Mars Web Page at the NSSDC.
Information about the Phoenix Mission to Mars can be found at this Press Release from the University of Arizona. You can view a 3D picture of the Mars Phoenix spacecraft here.
For more Mars news be sure to check out the Mars News.Com Web Site.
Percival Lowell did much to shape our ideas about Mars in the early years of the 20th Century. You can learn more about his work by reading this on-line copy of his 1895 book Mars.
Space News - The Cassini Mission to Saturn
Much information about the Cassini mission can be found at the Project's Official Web Site at JPL.
JPL is constantly releasing pictures from Cassini. You can find them by going to this JPL Web Page.
Additional information about the Cassini mission can be found at this ESA
Web Site.
The University of Arizona Web Site for the imaging system used to take the Huygens pictures of Titan has much information about how they were obtained and processed as well as a collection of processed and unprocessed images.
The Huygens probe carried a microphone and recorded the various sounds that it heard while descending to the surface of Titan. You can listen to those sounds at this Web Page sponsored by the Planetary Society.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
Links relating to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia can be found here.
The Reusable Launch & Space Vehicle News Web Site Web Page that is part of the Hobby Space Web Site is a really good place to watch for news about, well... Reusable Launch Vehicles and related subjects. I check it out just about every day and often find news there that doesn't show up anywhere else. Give it a look. {And while you're there be sure to check out some of the site's other pages. Wow! Is there a lot of information there.}
The Space Today Web Site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now Web Site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch Web Site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
ISS News
The Florida Today Web Site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station Web Page or the Boeing Web Page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link Web Site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA Web Page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
Space Related Organizations
If you are interested in learning more about current space activities there are many local and national organizations you might want to know about. Joining these organizations and taking part in their activities is a good way to stay abreast of things going on in space as well as a way to show your support for those activities. Listed below are some of those organizations.
The Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement has long been place for persons living in the Los Angeles area to gather and discuss the promise of space. Be sure to check out their Web Site for information about their meetings and other activities.
The Orange County Space Society is another Los Angeles area organization that provides a focal point for persons who are interested in space developments to get together and share their ideas. They have created a number of displays explaining the history and importance of space exploration that have appeared at various public events. Be sure to check their Web Site for information about their meetings and other events.
The National Space Society has a long history of being an advocate for a vigorous space program and provides much information to its members through their magazine and Web Site.
The Space Frontier Foundation is a strong advocate for a non-governmental space program and serves as a focal point for much activity in that arena. Their annual conference in Los Angeles during the Fall is a great way to find out what is happening in the non-government space arena.
The Space Access Society is focused on reducing the cost of going into space by promoting non-governmental launch vehicle programs. Their annual conference in the spring is a major source of information on non-traditional launch vehicle activities.
The Planetary Society is focused on the exploration of the Solar System and has a wealth of information for its members and others.
Click here for information about the audio files used for Hour 25 and for information about configuring your browser and downloading audio players.
Please note Web Pages from external sites will open in a separate browser window and that Hour 25 Productions are not responsible for the content of any external Web Sites.
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On Sunday - November 20th, 2005 - our guest on Hour 25 was Dr. Fiorella Terenzi chatting with us about 'the sounds of space' and her experiences as a woman scientist whose interests extend far beyond those of the laboratory.
It is always a pleasure to spent time talking with Fiorella. Few people combine science and the arts with her style and flair. One minute she'll be talking about the physics of star formation and the next she'll be relating that to stories her grandmother told her or pop culture dance music.
Fiorella has made a name for herself by showing how the radio signals from astronomical objects can be transformed into sounds that we can hear and study. Her work has lead to the development of a field sometimes known as "audioastronomy". But she took her place in pop culture by showing that those sounds can also make lovely music.
Listen and enjoy.
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Dateline: Mars
NASA is releasing all of the images from the two Mars Exploration Rovers almost as soon as they arrive at JPL. The raw images for the Spirit rover can be found at the following Web Page and raw images for Opportunity can be found here. The images that have been released to the press, along with animations and explanatory text, can be found here. You can find larger versions of the images shown below at that last NASA Web Site.
Opportunity
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Shown above is the traverse route being followed by the Opportunity rover as it journeys across the sands of Mars heading for Erebus Crater.
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Here's a picture of Martian sand dunes that Opportunity has been driving over and around enroute to Erebus. If you look closely at the right hand side of the picture you can just make out the rim of the Erebus Crater. Before long we'll be there and who knows what we will find?
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Here's a false color image showing you the flat rocks that are found nestled between the Martian sand dunes. Scientists are using images like this along with other data to try and understand the origin and development of the Martian landscape.
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Spirit
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This image shows you the traverse route that the Spirit rover has been following while it has spent more than a year getting to the top of Husband Hill. Scientists and engineers are now deciding where they want to - or can - go to next.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL
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The three images above show you the view from the top of Husband Hill. The color images approximate the way the scene would look if you were there and seeing it with your own eyes. If only.....
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Links for more information relating to this week's show
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
You can find out more about Fiorella and her music and science by visiting her official Web Site. {You can also order copies of her CDs from there.}
Fiorella's music can also be found at eMusic.com and mp3.com.
Monk Magazine has an interview with Fiorella that you can read online.
There are sound recordings of events happening in space that can be found at various places on the web. Some of these include;
The Sounds of Pulsars
The Singing Sun
Solar Sounds
VLF radio emissions from the Earth's aurora
Sounds of the Magnetosphere as recorded by the POLAR satellite
Plasma Wave audio recorded by Galileo and Voyager
Plasma Waves from Jupiter's Bow Shock
Space News from this show
Information about SpaceX and the upcoming launch of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle can be found at their official Web Site.
The ESA Web Site for the Venus Express Mission is a great place to get more information about this project.
For more information about the Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa be sure to go to the project's official Web Site or this web site maintained by the Planetary Society.
Space News - Mars
For more information about the Mars Exploration Rovers be sure to check out the MER Web Site at JPL or this Mars Rover site at Cornell University. You can also get information about the MER mission by reading the News Updates posted by Dr. Steve Squyres, the project's Principal Investigator.
To learn more about the Mars Express mission you can go to this ESA Mars Express Web Site, this Mars Express Web Page from JPL, this NSSDC Mars Express Web Page, or this Web Page from Mars News.Com.
For more information about the Exploration of Mars be sure to go to the JPL Mars Exploration Site, the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA Ames, or the Mars Missions Web Site at the Planetary Society.
Information about the data returned by previous Mars missions can be found at this Mars Web Page at the NSSDC.
Information about the Phoenix Mission to Mars can be found at this Press Release from the University of Arizona. You can view a 3D picture of the Mars Phoenix spacecraft here.
For more Mars news be sure to check out the Mars News.Com Web Site.
Percival Lowell did much to shape our ideas about Mars in the early years of the 20th Century. You can learn more about his work by reading this on-line copy of his 1895 book Mars.
Space News - The Cassini Mission to Saturn
Much information about the Cassini mission can be found at the Project's Official Web Site at JPL.
JPL is constantly releasing pictures from Cassini. You can find them by going to this JPL Web Page.
Additional information about the Cassini mission can be found at this ESA
Web Site.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
Links relating to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia can be found here.
The Reusable Launch & Space Vehicle News Web Site Web Page that is part of the Hobby Space Web Site is a really good place to watch for news about, well... Reusable Launch Vehicles and related subjects. I check it out just about every day and often find news there that doesn't show up anywhere else. Give it a look. {And while you're there be sure to check out some of the site's other pages. Wow! Is there a lot of information there.}
The Space Today Web Site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now Web Site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch Web Site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
ISS News
The Florida Today Web Site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station Web Page or the Boeing Web Page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link Web Site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA Web Page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
Space Related Organizations
If you are interested in learning more about current space activities there are many local and national organizations you might want to know about. Joining these organizations and taking part in their activities is a good way to stay abreast of things going on in space as well as a way to show your support for those activities. Listed below are some of those organizations.
The Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement has long been place for persons living in the Los Angeles area to gather and discuss the promise of space. Be sure to check out their Web Site for information about their meetings and other activities.
The Orange County Space Society is another Los Angeles area organization that provides a focal point for persons who are interested in space developments to get together and share their ideas. They have created a number of displays explaining the history and importance of space exploration that have appeared at various public events. Be sure to check their Web Site for information about their meetings and other events.
The National Space Society has a long history of being an advocate for a vigorous space program and provides much information to its members through their magazine and Web Site.
The Space Frontier Foundation is a strong advocate for a non-governmental space program and serves as a focal point for much activity in that arena. Their annual conference in Los Angeles during the Fall is a great way to find out what is happening in the non-government space arena.
The Space Access Society is focused on reducing the cost of going into space by promoting non-governmental launch vehicle programs. Their annual conference in the spring is a major source of information on non-traditional launch vehicle activities.
The Planetary Society is focused on the exploration of the Solar System and has a wealth of information for its members and others.
Click here for information about the audio files used for Hour 25 and for information about configuring your browser and downloading audio players.
Please note Web Pages from external sites will open in a separate browser window and that Hour 25 Productions are not responsible for the content of any external Web Sites.
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