My Assistant
Site Message
  |
Next on NOVA: "Volcano Under the City" |
 May 19 2006, 09:00 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430  |
Next on NOVA: "Volcano Under the City"
http://www.pbs.org/nova/volcanocity Broadcast: May 23, 2006 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (Repeat) (NOVA airs Tuesdays on PBS at 8 p.m. Check your local listings as dates and times may vary.) Deep inside a volcano, a team of scientists camps amid rockslides and seething sulfur dioxide gas. Their mission: to study this deadly mountain up close to find out what makes it tick. The fate of nearly half a million people in a nearby city could be at stake. NOVA accompanies this daring expedition in "Volcano Under the City." The volcano is eastern Congo's Mount Nyiragongo, which erupted in January 2002, surprising the city of Goma 11 miles away. Enormous cracks opened in the ground nearby and spewed fountains of lava, killing 100 people and leaving 120,000 homeless. Scientists' biggest fear is that next time a fracture could open under the city itself. Here's what you'll find online: Inquiry & Article Boom or Bust Can we forecast volcanic eruptions? Behind the Scenes Descend into Nyiragongo's volatile crater with filmmaker Antoine de Maximy. Interactive & Slide Show Anatomy of Nyiragongo Find out what features make this unquiet volcano tick. Deadly Volcanoes Explore some of the worst volcanic disasters of the past four centuries. Also, Links & Books, the Teacher's Guide, the program transcript, and more. http://www.pbs.org/nova/volcanocity -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
 |
 
|
|
Sep 22 2006, 08:02 PM
Post
#2
|
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
|
|
|
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 15th December 2024 - 10:07 PM |
|
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |
|
