OUR COSMIC CLIMATE: The Role of Weather Satellites🛰️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the London Zoo's 200th Anniversary History Hive project!

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a satellite that's been launched to see the effect of clouds on our climate, why the North Atlantic Ocean could have up to SEVEN major hurricanes this year and Tina Campanella from the Zoological Society of London tells us all about London Zoo's History Hive project ahead of their 200th anniversary in 2026.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Lucy's question about why screens make it harder for us to fall asleep and we pose Max's question on how weather satellites work to Professor Douglas Parker from the University of Leeds.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the ambush predator in the sand dunes of Africa - The Six Eyed Spider!

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Alex Easton from Durham University about why Neuroscience is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- What effect clouds have on our climate?

- The 7 hurricanes that could be reaching the North Atlantic Ocean this year

- London Zoo's History Hive project celebrating its 200th anniversary

- How do weather satellites work??

- Is Neuroscience the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	All right, Explorer, you have stumbled upon the smartest show in the solar system.
0:07.0	My name's Dan, welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:11.0	This is the podcast that tours the galaxy. We get you back in
0:14.4	about half an hour. It's quick. I know that's time travel. I can't explain it. What I
0:18.0	can tell you is the brilliant things we've got on the show this week. We will actually look ahead to next week.
0:24.4	Especially what's in the sky next week. We'll find out how we know what weather is like in the future.
0:29.6	Can't tell what the weather's going to be like in a week's time unless you know really what it's like now.
0:36.5	And you need to know that all over the whole world, to predict the weather in the UK in a week's time, you need to know about the weather from Australia, Antarctica, America, everywhere.
0:46.5	Also in our quest to find the greatest science ever, we will look into your mind and hear about neuroscience.
0:56.0	Without being able to remember, we couldn't be who we are.
1:00.0	Think about not being able to remember your breakfast, what you did yesterday, who your family are,
1:05.0	who we are as a person is absolutely made by our memories. It would be really difficult to imagine any sort of good life without memory.
1:14.0	And you can learn all about one of the most deadly spiders in the world.
1:20.0	Only through your ears though, they're not actually coming anywhere near.
1:24.0	So you're fine. Let's get to it with a brand new fun kids science weekly.
1:29.0	And we'll start with your science in the news, a sophisticated satellite which has been made in a joint team of the European and Japanese space agencies, it's launched across the atmosphere
1:45.2	to measure how clouds influence the climate. You see some low-level clouds are known
1:50.9	to call the planet, but one's much higher higher up maybe act as a blanket to make
1:54.7	it warmer so this satellite is trying to figure out what clouds actually do how is
2:00.2	it affecting climate change it's called the Earth Care Mission. It will use a
2:05.0	laser and a radar to probe the atmosphere to find precisely what's happening.
2:10.6	You see, this is amazing, isn't it? We're thinking so much about climate
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