From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: JULY NASA-TV Education File
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:03:12 -0500
Dear discuss-lfm members and discuss-lfa members, Passport to Knowledge programming which aired during 1996-97 in the Live From Mars and Live From Antarctica 2=20 series of telecasts will be **re-broadcast** on NASA-TV during the month of July per the following schedule which was *just released* minutes ago... <hot off the press!> Jan Wee, moderator ------------------------------------------------------ JULY EDUCATION FILE SCHEDULE - NASA TV NASA TV: Spacenet-2, C-Band, T5, Ch. 9, 69=B0 W, 3880 MHz,=20 horizontal polarization, audio 6.8 MHz. Please note that effective March 15, 1997, the=20 NASA TV satellite changed to: GE-2, Transponder 9C at=20 85 degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, with a=20 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. ________________________________________________________________________ July 3 Thur and July 21 Mon Live From Mars Program I "Countdown" (Program 1) (rebroadcast of live performance) Level: Grades 5-12 (57:30) "Countdown" introduces a new series of "Passport to Knowledge"=20 electronic field trips. Live From Mars Program I takes=20 students behind closed doors at Cape Canaveral to see=20 NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft close-up, just days before=20 its successful early December launch, and invites students=20 and teachers to follow Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor=20 on-line via the Internet and with hands-on discovery activities=20 throughout the next two school years. ________________________________________________________________________ July 4 Fri and July 22 Tues Live From Mars Program II: "Cruising Between the Planets" (Program 2)=20 Level: Grades 5-12 (60:00) Behind the scenes at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, lead=20 center for planetary exploration. How rocket fuel, momentum,=20 gravity and ingenuity get spacecraft from Earth to Mars.=20 Mars Pathfinder's and Global Surveyor's progress to date. =20 Portraits of the men and women who control the missions.=20 Building and testing the robotic rover, Sojourner. =20 Highlights of hands-on student activities including the=20 LFM Planet Explorer Toolkit, the Egg Drop Challenge, and=20 Red Rover, Red Rover.=20 ________________________________________________________________________ July 2 Wed and July 28 Mon Live From Antarctica 2: Oceans, Ice & Life (Program 1) Level: Grades 5-8 (60:00) Sail to Palmer Station aboard the R.V. Polar Duke, across=20 the Drake Passage, the roughest waters on Earth. During=20 this first live telecast, from on board ship, meet the=20 researchers who are studying the interaction of the marine=20 food chain, and see how life on and in the ocean waxes and=20 wanes along with the seasonal ice sheets. This program=20 demonstrates the adaptation of life to such extreme conditions,=20 and shows how scientists must also adapt their lives and=20 research techniques to the environment. _____________________________________________________________ July 11 Fri and July 24 Thurs Live From Antarctica 2: The Secrets of Survival (Program 2)=20 Level: Grades 5-8 (60:00) For the fifty researchers and their support teams who live=20 at Palmer during the Antarctic summer, commuting to work=20 involves a daily trip from the relative safety and comfort=20 of the main research station aboard small Zodiac inflatables=20 out to their desolate study sites, over waters that would kill=20 in minutes in the event of an accident. Travel with them, live,=20 to Torgerson Island, to study Adelie penguins and their newborn=20 chicks; to Humble and Dream Island to observe the skuas who prey=20 on them, and find out the fascinating connections between each=20 season's ice and weather, and which young creatures will live=20 and die. This program looks at the secrets of survival for both=20 the wildlife and the human researchers who journey to the ends=20 of the Earth to study them. ________________________________________________________________________ July 14 Mon and July 25 Fri Live From Antarctica 2: Seeing the Future (Program 3)=20 Level: Grade 5-8 (60:00) Antarctica was the place which first showed humans the=20 ozone hole, and Palmer Station is one of the key sites=20 which helps us understand how global climate change may=20 affect the ecosystem of which we are all part. Palmer is=20 the only place on the Continent where microscopic plants=20 can grow on land, and the site of an ambitious Long Term=20 Ecological Research project seeking to understand the=20 ongoing interaction of ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. =20 This program presents the latest on ozone and the effects=20 of increased ultraviolet radiation, and shows how research=20 in Antarctica helps us understand our entire planetary=20 environment. ________________________________________________________________________