First Full Moon
JB: And I'm Joel Block for Earth and Sky -- January 1, 1999. This evening there will be a bright full moon in the sky. This'll be the first of two full moons for this month.DB: The time between full moons is 29-and-a-half days -- so if the first full moon of a year falls on January 1st or 2nd, there will be two full moons in January -- none in February -- and two in March.
JB: And that's the case this year. Tonight's full moon will be followed by a second full moon on January 31. There will be no full moons during the month of February -- and then March we'll have full moons
Written on January 28, 1999 | Posted in Moon | No comment
Most volcanoes on Earth are formed in place
DB: And I'm Deborah Byrd for Earth and Sky. The Earth's crust is made up of separate plates of land and ocean floor. Most volcanoes are located along the boundaries between plates. (more...)
Written on January 28, 1999 | Posted in NASA | No comment
Life in Deep Ocean
JB: And I’m Joel Block for Earth and Sky — Tuesday, January 5. Yesterday we answered Tim Bowman about the deepest parts of the ocean — depressions in the ocean floor — known as trenches.
Written on January 5, 1999 | Posted in Space News | No comment
Diving Deep
DB: And I’m Deborah Byrd for Earth and Sky — Monday, January 4. Tim Bowman from Tennessee writes, “How deep are the deepest depths of the ocean . . .
Written on January 4, 1999 | Posted in Space News | No comment
Solstice and Perihelion
DB: This is Earth and Sky Sunday - January 3 - with a question from Seattle.
Written on January 3, 1999 | Posted in NASA | No comment
Taller in Space
DB: This is Earth and Sky, with a question from Rebekah LaBar of Ellensburg, Washington. Rebekah writes, “I’ve heard that astronauts get taller in space. Why?”
Written on January 2, 1999 | Posted in Blogs | No comment
