Description of September 24th radio show: The Sun and the Earth

I know, it's been available here for a while, but below is description of the September 24th edition of this radio show:

• Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/Science events in the greater Poughkeepsie/New York City area.
• Interview with Prof. Joseph Tanski (Vassar College) on Vassar's summer research program for undergraduates.
• News: Phoenix Mars Lander to attempt to take a soil sample from under a rock to determine the origin of sub-surface ice; Mars Rover Opportunity headed to Victoria crater; NASA's Swift satellite detects highest redshift gamma-ray burst to date (link 1, link 2); space shuttle Endeavour moves to launch pad to get ready in case it is needed to rescue crew on Atlantis (NOTE: since broadcast, Atlantis launched delayed until 2009 due to Hubble malfunction); IBEX spacecraft testing proceeding; NASA's Kepler spacecraft, designed to detect new classes of extra-solar planet, survives baking test enroute to 2009 launch (listen to my interview with Dr. Jennifer Wiseman for more information on the Kepler mission); developmental models for components of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) passes "shake and bake" tests (link, for more information on JWST, listen to my interview with Dr. Mark Clampin); optical interferometry instrument PRIMA installed on ESO's Very Large Telescope (link); gravitational wave interferometer Virgo suffers a vacuum failure due to glass viewport breaking; Dr. Roger Blandford chosen to head next Astronomy Decadal Survey; Senator McCain announces that, if elected president, he would freeze next year's science budget; International Astronomical Union names fifth dwarf planet in Solar System "Haumea" (link); NASA releases new educational tool called "eClips" available here or here; ESA releases new educational DVD and 3-D Teaching tool, available here, as well as announces a contest to design a t-shirt for astronaut Frank De Winne onboard the International Space Station; ESA satellite Artemis does emergency communications with Jules Verne ATV.
• Wednesday Morning Astronomer (my weekly take on the Astronomy content of this ESPN column): Google Earth (and Sky) are pretty awesome, it is funny that spy satellites also take pictures for Google, and the leak at LHC has nothing to do with black holes....
• The Sun and the Earth: Ulysses spacecraft determines that solar wind at 50 year low; Hinode records video of polar crown prominence in Sun's corona; TRACE satellite records a Coronal Mass Ejection doing a cartwheel!; nanoflares may be reason for keeping the Sun's corona so hot (link); Sun goes longer than normal without producing a sunspot (link); changes in Solar activity could account for only a very small amount of the climate change on Earth (link); radio emission from lower Earth magnetosphere "hiss" might be responsible for clearing out electrons from a section of the Earth's magnetosphere as well as "chorus" radio emission from outer magnetosphere; ESA's Cluster satellites record low-frequency radio emission from aurorae (link) and discovers that Earth's magnetosphere responsible for accelerating ions leaving Earth's atmosphere (link); NASA's THEMIS satellites observes "substorms" caused by reshaping of Earth's outer magnetosphere - related to aurorae (link 1, link 2, link 3); mineral content of glass from the Moon indicates presence of water in Moon's interior.

Hope you enjoy this program. Sorry for taking so long to post the description and, as always, any and all feedback is appreciated. Again, thank you.