{"id":20159,"date":"2016-11-23T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20159"},"modified":"2016-11-23T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:55:43","slug":"enviro-21st-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20159","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 21st November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s topics: Rosetta and Juno probes results &#8211; Where does the water on earth come from? Was it brought down by comets? Is there life on other planets? Are we going to terraform Mars and live there?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROSETTA PROBE (European Space Agency)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dropping the lander Philae on to asteroid 67P\u2019s was not easy &#8211; Numerous organic compounds were also detected by Rosetta from orbit, and also by Philae in situ on the surface. (ESA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUNO PROBE (NASA \u2013 USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to Juno, eight spacecraft have navigated the cold, deep space as far out as Jupiter. what mystery are hidden below this thick atmosphere (NASA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASTEROID SKIMS EARTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The asteroid 2016 VA zoomed within about 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometres) of the planet Earth at midnight (00:32 GMT) on November 2nd 2016. Surprise asteroid encounters like last night&#8217;s flyby aren&#8217;t uncommon; millions of space rocks are thought to orbit the sun in Earth&#8217;s neighbourhood, and scientists have discovered just 15,000 of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter\/Producer:<\/strong> <em>Britt Du Fournet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panellists:<\/strong><em> Joe Dunne, Taran &amp; Jared<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong><em> David Moore (Chairman\u00a0of Astronomy Ireland)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s topics: Rosetta and Juno probes results &#8211; Where does the water on earth come from? Was it brought down by comets? Is there life on other planets? Are we going to terraform Mars and live there? &nbsp; ROSETTA PROBE (European Space Agency) Dropping the lander Philae on to asteroid 67P\u2019s was not easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[324,5536,848,1126,4412],"class_list":["post-20159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy-ireland","tag-britt-du-fournet","tag-david-moore","tag-enviro","tag-joe-dunne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20160,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions\/20160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}