Nova scienceNOW. 2009, episode 5
(2009)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS : Made available through hoopla, 2009
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 60 min.)) : sd., col
ISBN/ISSN
MWT11867315, 11867315
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Directed by Paula Apsell
Host: Neil deGrasse Tyson
A team of NASA scientists who will smash two SUV-sized rockets onto the lunar surface and unleash a debris cloud to study data that could provide the key to understanding how to build a permanent base on the moon; microbiologist Jack Griffith, who made a phenomenal discovery - the oldest known organic molecules on earth; research on an Australian songbird called the zebra finch, shedding light on the neuronal processes that lead from understanding sounds to producing them; and a profile of climate scientist Lonnie Thompson, aka Tropical Ice Core Man
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Mode of access: World Wide Web