• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Science Update

Science Update

Sharing Science | Satisfying Curiosity | Debunking BS

  • Spotlights
  • Reality Check
  • Why Is It?
  • Radio Archives
  • Sciup @ School
Home » Radio Archive » Daily Show » Volcanoes on Mercury

Volcanoes on Mercury

January 14, 2010
https://podcast.scienceupdate.com/100114_sciup_merc.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window

BOB HIRSHON (host):
A planet’s volcanic childhood. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.
The planet Mercury has long been a mystery. It’s so close to the sun that visiting it is difficult. But recent flybys by the MESSENGER spacecraft are revealing much about the planet. Graduate student Laura Kerber works in the lab of Brown University planetary geologist James Head, and is especially interested in the discovery of volcanoes on Mercury.
LAURA KERBER (Brown University):
Because to have a volcano on the planet meant that you’d have to have some of these elements that drive volcanic eruptions—such as some compounds like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water—these are the things that drive volcanic eruptions.
HIRSHON:
She says it was thought that such compounds couldn’t survive so near the sun. In 2011, MESSENGER will go into orbit around the planet, allowing Kerber and hundreds of other scientists to learn more about Mercury, and the history of our solar system. I’m Bob Hirshon for AAAS, the Science Society.

Category: Daily ShowTag: Astronomy & Space, Geology, Physics
Previous Post:Angry Faces
Next Post:Bone Roundup

Sidebar

Radio Program Archives

Want to learn more about the brain? The environment? Here you can browse the topics that come up regularly on Science Update.

Search the Archives

Categories

  • Daily Show
  • Station Download
  • Weekly Show

Find By Tag

  • 2020
  • Acoustics & Sound
  • Aging
  • Animal Behavior
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Biology
  • Brain Science
  • Bugs
  • Chemistry
  • Children & Families
  • cicadas
  • Climate & Weather
  • Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Economics & Business
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Conservation
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Geology
  • Marine Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Health
  • Microbiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Paleontology & Dinosaurs
  • Physics
  • Plants & Agriculture
  • Political Science
  • Reality Check
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sports & Fitness
  • spotlight
  • Spotlight Bugs
  • Terrorism & War
  • Why Is It? Questions
  • Wildlife
  • Year in Review

Find By Date

Science Update
  • About Science Update
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Mayan Honeybee hives
House sparrow wearing top hat rides aboard a red fireworks rocket

Copyright © 2023 · Springtail Media LLC · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Pongos