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Science Friday: Blue Marble: The Making Of

9th - 10th
Hear how the famous "blue marble" pictures of Earth are actually built from datasets collected by instruments aboard satellites and then translated into imagery here on the ground.
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Science Friday: Crafting the 'Fastest Ice on Earth'

9th - 10th
Marc Norman obsessively monitors the ice at the Utah Olympic Oval to create the perfect skating surface.
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Science Friday: Lester Brown: Plan B 4.0

9th - 10th
Ira talks about global sustainability with Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute.
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Science Friday: Deep Bacterium Goes It Alone

9th - 10th
Researchers studying a sample of bacteria from water taken from a crack in a South African gold mine -- nearly 3 kilometers below the surface of the Earth -- have found that the ecosystem in the crack consists of only one organism.
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Science Friday: Colliding Planets (Don't Panic)

9th - 10th
New research finds a small -- but present -- chance of a collision between Earth and one of its planetary neighbors in the next few billion years.