
This issue we present the second part of our "Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell" bringing the story up to the start of October 1957. We also have Ask an Astronomer and get an update on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
Show Links
- The Mars Rovers (JPL)
- Opportunity Begins Sustained Exploration Inside Crater
- Mars Rover Flight Director's Update 7 September 2007
An Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell (Part 2 of 3)
- MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
- John Rylands Library Jodrell Bank Archive
- The History of the Lovell Telescope (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- The building of the worlds' first giant radio telescope (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- Professor Blackett biography (Wikipedia)
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster (Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics)
- Tacoma Narrows video clip (MPEG, 684 kB)
- Tacoma Narrows video clip (YouTube - no audio)
Ask an astronomer - Railways, comets and space-time
- MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
- Pantograph (Wikipedia)
- Comets (Windows to the Universe)
- The Oort Cloud (David Jewitt, IfA Hawaii)
- The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud (nineplanets.org)
- SOHO movie of two comets plunging into the solar corona (QT, 190 kB)
- SOHO movie of two comets plunging into the solar corona (MPEG, 189 kB)
- Best Of SOHO Movies: Comets
Show Credits
Interview: | Tim O'Brien and Sir Bernard Lovell |
Ask an Astronomer: | Nick Rattenbury and Tim O'Brien |
Presenters: | David Ault, Nick Rattenbury and Stuart Lowe |
Challenge setter: | David Ault |
Editors: | Stuart Lowe and Nick Rattenbury |
Cover Art: | Sir Bernard Lovell and the Lovell Telescope CREDIT: Jodrell Bank Observatory with digital additions by Stuart Lowe |
Website: | Stuart Lowe |
Cover art: | Sir Bernard Lovell and the Lovell Telescope Credit: Jodrell Bank Observatory with digital additions by Stuart Lowe |