From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: October NASA-TV: Schedule of PTK programs
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:37:55 -0500
Dear discuss-lfm members, The following schedule (below) is an excerpt of the recently released NASA-TV schedule for October. Additionally, remember,... COMING SOON... LIVE FROM MARS #4: "DESTINATION MARS" October 30, 1997, 1-2 p.m. Eastern Highlights from both Pathfinder and Global Surveyor missions will be featured as well as an introduction to Mars as perhaps the most exciting planet to visit in our solar system. LIVE FROM MARS #5: "TODAY ON MARS" November 13, 1997, 1-2 p.m., Eastern Live weather data and imagery from Mars show what has been learned to date from the Pathfinder lander and rover: how the continuing data stream provides students with material to analyze in math and computer classes. What Sojourner has revealed, to date, about the actual composition of Martian rocks, and what this implies for the question of liquid water and the possibility of life. A preview of the next decade of exploration. We hope you have made arrangements by now to access "Destination Mars" and the final LFM live telecast -- "Today on Mars". If you do not have direct access to a satellite dish (C band/NASA-TV or KU Band/PBS Telstar 402R), be sure to contact your local PBS station asap for coverage plans. Other options: check with your local cable company & ask for their assistance; a local university/college/tech school; NASA Teacher Resource Center; educational support agency, etc; parent/friend with a movable satellite dish, etc. Be creative! Tapes are available for ordering for a minimal $19.95 per 1 hour program charge via the PTK office (PTK, P.O. Box 1502, Summit, NJ 07902-1502). Jan Wee, moderator [Note: Apologies for my recent absence from discuss-lfm -- family emergency resulted in being off line for the past two weeks. There has also been a recent mail server problem that has now been rectified that was affecting discuss-lfm. If you sent postings to the discuss-lfm list and did not see it come through, please re-post! Sorry for the inconvenience!] ************************************************************************* OCTOBER EDUCATION FILE SCHEDULE - NASA TV NASA TV: GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 3880 Mhz, and audio of 6.8 Mhz. 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. ________________________________________________________________________ Oct 1/ Oct 27/ Oct 30 Live From Antarctica 2: Oceans, Ice & Life Level: Grades 5-8 (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. ________________________________________________________________________ Oct 2 / Oct 20/ Oct 31 Live From Mars Program I "Countdown" (rebroadcast of live performance) Level: Grades 5-12 (57:30) "Countdown" introduces a new series of "Passport to Knowledge" electronic field trips. Live From Mars Program I takes students behind closed doors at Cape Canaveral to see NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft close-up, just days before its successful early December launch, and invites students and teachers to follow Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor on-line via the Internet and with hands-on discovery activities throughout the next two school years. ________________________________________________________________________ Oct 3 / Oct 21 Live From Mars Program II: "Cruising Between the Planets" Level: Grades 5-12 (60:00) Behind the scenes at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, lead center for planetary exploration. How rocket fuel, momentum, gravity and ingenuity get spacecraft from Earth to Mars. Mars Pathfinder's and Global Surveyor's progress to date. Portraits of the men and women who control the missions. Building and testing the robotic rover, Sojourner. Highlights of hands-on student activities including the LFM Planet Explorer Toolkit, the Egg Drop Challenge, and Red Rover, Red Rover. ________________________________________________________________________ Oct 10 / Oct 23 Live From Antarctica 2: The Secrets of Survival Level: Grades 5-8 (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. ________________________________________________________________________ Oct 13 / Oct 24 Live From Antarctica 2: Seeing the Future Level: Grade 5-8 (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. ________________________________________________________________________ A full NASA-TV Schedule can be found at... http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/NASA.News/NASA.Television.Schedules/Education .Schedule/