Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants

Thursday, 20 October 2022 - 8:30am
Sped-up timelapse of the final images taken by the DART spacecraft's camera. (NASA/John Hopkins APL)

This week, Catriona tells all about the surprising success of NASA's DART mission, which tested a method of colliding a spacecraft with an asteroid to redirect it before it can threaten Earth; and Stu speaks to Tien Huynh from RMIT University about a plan to grow plants on the Moon as part of the project https://lunaria.one/

Claire, Chris & Stu
Thursday 8:30am to 9:00am
Entertaining news and discussion about research that has impact on society and providing a wide range of science and technology news. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

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Chris Lassig, Stuart Burns and Claire Farrugia and others.

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