A Tale Of Two Lunar Landing Attempts

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A journey through some of the latest science stories catching our eyes. This time, we consider the Russian and Indian lunar landing attempts, how scientists are reconstructing music from people's brains and lessons from wildfires that contributed to a mass extinction of North American land mammals 13,000 years ago.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.5	Hey, Shortwaveers, Aaron Scott here.
0:07.5	And Regina Barber.
0:08.5	And Elsa Chang.
0:09.8	Elsa, thank you for stepping away from your hosting responsibilities on all things considered.
0:15.4	You're so welcome.
0:16.4	We have you here today to talk through some of the latest science headlines that we've been reading up on.
0:21.6	No problemo.
0:22.9	I heard that we're talking about the recent attempted moon landings.
0:27.0	Yep, and recreating a classic rock song from brain activity.
0:31.5	And finally, what tarp hits from today can tell us about wildfires thousands of years in the past.
0:39.0	You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
0:49.7	Okay, let's journey into space first and start with those moon landings.
0:52.8	What happened this week?
0:54.3	So we just had two countries.
0:55.9	Russia and India attempt to land robotic probes on the moon within days of each other.
1:00.4	Russia was first.
1:01.4	It tried over the weekend and it failed adding to the suspense if India would succeed.
1:06.6	Then Wednesday, India did it.
1:13.8	It's probe landed close to the moon South Pole.
1:16.6	And this region of the moon is just really fascinating.
1:19.4	What's so special about this area of the moon?
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