Eclipse Balloons: Podcast – NASA

Transcript (sound FX: crunch of footsteps on rocks, wind) [0:04] Narrator: About fifteen years ago, geology student Abigail Allwood was hiking around the red rocks of Northwestern Australia, in a rugged region known as the Pilbara. This part of Australia has some of the most ancient rocks in the world, dating back between two and three-and-a-half billion years. Finding rocks this old on Earth is exceedingly rare, because our planet’s surface is always in flux, and over our planet’s lifespan, most rocks have been recycled — a slow but violent process in which buried rocks become compressed, heated and…

Learn how Moon rocks can reveal all kinds of information about our nearest neighbor, as NASA prepares to send astronautsto the Moon and on to Mars. Jim Green: Moon rocks from the Apollo missions have taught us a lot, but did you know some are still sealed, and we’ve never opened them? Why did we do that? Well, we’re going to find out by talking to an expert. We’re going to find out why we care about these tiny pieces of our nearest neighbor. Hi, I’m Jim Green, chief scientist at NASA and this is Gravity Assist. This season…

Matthew Buffington (Host): What’s up, everybody? You are watching the third episode of NASA in Silicon Valley Live, a conversational show on Twitch TV with the various scientists, researchers, engineers and overall cool people throughout NASA but especially here at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. This is a special “Let’s Play Space Video Games” episode. Obviously on Twitch you’re all familiar with folks playing video games and talking about them, so we figured let’s get some NASA experts on this Twitch show to basically talk about the science and engineering that is related to these video games…