A Astronomycast Episode 462 Modeling the Weather

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos.

We'll help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day with me, is Dr. Pamela Gay,

the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,

and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how's it going?

It's going well, how's it going with you, Fraser?

Really well.

We are about to do the second episode on what's happened in with the weather.

Before we do, how is the image detectives going?

It's going well. We need more people doing it though, because we have 1.5 million photos.

That's a lot of photos.

Those astronauts were super busy.

Yes, and they've been busy for a long time.

So if you want to see some truly stunning photos, all of which you can download and turn into your screen,

backdrops to your heart's delight, go to CosmoQuest.org slash image detectives.

And help us figure out what the heck the astronauts were taking pretty pictures of.

And you will help us be able to use the science to figure out how our planet is changing as it gets impacted by the weather.

And help science.

And the faster we get, more images done, we're currently working on building a catalog that will allow you to look things up.

In much the same way that you'd look up to find, is there a hotel near this place?

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