BLAST from the Past

Last night Dr. Mark Devlin appeared on The Colbert Report to talk about BLAST the Movie. The movie is a documentary about an experiment in 2006 that involved launching a car-sized telescope in Antarctica using a balloon. Before Lab Out Loud, we did a podcast for the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers called Periodicity.  Dr. Devlin, a graduate of University […]

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Periodicity 30: BLAST– Balloon-borne Telescope

A Weekly Podcast from the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Find more Periodicity Episodes Today we talk with Dr. Mark Devlin (Department of Physics and Astronomy at UPenn) about BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope). Running Time: 23:50 http://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/periodicity3001182007.mp3 Show Notes: Today we talk with Dr. Mark Devlin (Department of Physics and Astronomy at UPenn) about BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope). […]

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