From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: SCHEDULE: RE-BROADCASTS of LFA 2 PROGRAMS on NASA-TV
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 07:49:10 -0600
Dear All,=20 Some Live From Mars participants have requested this broadcast information about our other Passport to Knowledge project currently active. The Live From Antarctica 2 programs (all three) will be re-broadcast on NASA-TV during the month of March. The Education File Schedule notes the satellite coordinats as Spacenet 2. As you are aware NASA recently posting news that NASA-TV has a new home on=20 GE-2 as of March 15th. This impacts the second set of air dates for March. Please keep this in mind! Remember that the move to the GE-2 satellite will give broader coverage including Alaska and Hawaii! =20 Jan Wee, moderator=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH EDUCATION FILE SCHEDULE - NASA TV COORDINATES for March 1-14 NASA TV: Spacenet-2, C-Band, T5, Ch. 9, 69=B0 W, 3880 MHz, horizontal polarization, audio 6.8 MHz. COORDINATES effective March 15 onward, NTV will be available on GE-2,=20 Transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical=20 polarization, with a frequency of 3880 Mhz, and audio of 6.8 Mhz AIR TIMES:=20 2-3 pm 5-6 pm 8-9 pm 11 pm-12 am 2-3 am All times Eastern NASA TV may pre-empt scheduled programming for live agency events. ________________________________________________________________________ March 3 Mon and March 24 Mon Live From Antarctica: Oceans, Ice & Life Level: Grades 9-12 (60:00) Sail to Palmer Station aboard the R.V. Polar Duke, across the Drake Passage, the roughest waters on Earth. During this first live telecast, from on board ship, meet the researchers who are studying the interaction of the marine food chain, and see how life on and in the ocean waxes and wanes along with the seasonal ice sheets. This program demonstrates the adaptation of life to such extreme conditions, and shows how scientists must also adapt their lives and research techniques to the environment. ________________________________________________________________________ March 4 Tue and March 25 Tues Live From Antarctica: The Secrets of Survival Level: Grades 9-12 (60:00) For the fifty researchers and their support teams who live at Palmer during the Antarctic summer, commuting to work involves a daily trip from the relative safety and comfort of the main research station aboard small Zodiac inflatables out to their desolate study sites, over waters that would kill in minutes in the event of an accident. Travel with them, live, to Torgerson Island, to study Adelie penguins and their newborn chicks; to Humble and Dream Island to observe the skuas who prey on them, and find out the fascinating connections between each season's ice and weather, and which young creatures will live and die. This program looks at the secrets of survival for both the wildlife and the human researchers who journey to the ends of the Earth to study them. ________________________________________________________________________ March 5 Wed and March 26 Wed Live From Antarctica: Seeing the Future Level: Grade 9-12 (60:00) Antarctica was the place which first showed humans the ozone hole, and Palmer Station is one of the key sites which helps us understand how global climate change may affect the ecosystem of which we are all part. Palmer is the only place on the Continent where microscopic plants can grow on land, and the site of an ambitious Long Term Ecological Research project seeking to understand the ongoing interaction of ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. This program presents the latest on ozone and the effects of increased ultraviolet radiation, and shows how research in Antarctica helps us understand our entire planetary environment. ________________________________________________________________________