5 planets align in the night sky.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is this morning is doctor Steve Kates, otherwise known as doctor Skuy, and he’s on with us every Sunday expanding our minds of what’s going on in the Solar system, the galaxy, the universe, and just making us a little bit smarter. Doctor Kate’s Oh no, you’re not a doctor’s case, you’re my friend, Steve. Steve’s right, the heck is going up?

0:24 What the heck is going on up there that we could expand our minds and feel good about it?

0:31 Speaker 2 Well, John, First, good morning, Happy April, and also happy Palm Sunday to our listeners out there. We start off with the Sun, which produces all of our weather, as we know. But what’s interesting is a big blast of energy came from the Sun just a few days ago.

0:46 It’s called an x flare, and many people may know by doing these particular shows with you on Sunday mornings. The sun is in an inquiry solar activity period with cycle twenty five. But what happened last week is even more interesting. In my opinion, people were getting to see because of these amazing powerful solar flares and things called

1:05 coronal mass ejections, the Aurora borealis, the excitation of the upper atmosphere, these protons and energy particles that come from the sun. John the auroras were visible. Normally, they’re just visible in the northern latitudes. People in Florida were actually getting to see the auroras, which means that this solar cycle is really just beginning. We can expect a lot more.

1:27 It’s amazing.

1:29 Speaker 1 So how bad can it affect us? I mean, will it affect us one hundred years from now? Is it gonna affect us next week?

1:37 Speaker 2 Well, you never know. I mean, we go back to eighteen fifty nine with that great Carrington event, and we had of course then I’ve mentioned this many times before. Before the advent of computers, we had the analog internet, which was the telegraph, and those powerful solar storms, and that particular one actually set telephone and telegraph lines I

1:55 should say telegraph lines more appropriately on fire because of the energy. But now we’re such a dependent world one on the electronics. We’re just hoping that, well, it’s going to happen. But because our world is so dependent on the digital technologies and electronics we have, well, that’s not a good story of what could happen. It could simply

2:16 wipe out grids. It could do so much, but we always like to be positive when we expand people’s minds, so you never really know about that. But there’s something, John, that we want to mention. Every week we talk about here on your show, the mystery of the week, and here’s the big one. Nobody understands this, but here we go.

2:33 Why did Mars dry out? And where did the water go? Well, this is the great mystery in science. So what astronomers and scientists think they know about six hundred million years ago? Something changed. They called it climate change on Mars. I guess way back then, but it was probably due to increase volcanic activity. Mars was very active with volcanoes. But

2:54 some say geologists, included astrogeologists, that water may have flowed on the surface of Mars million years ago. And now, well we’ll get to the point of where it went. But many people believe that there’s water underneath the surface of Mars and these aquifers, as evidenced by images showing these large gullies on Mars. I find this fascinating because

3:16 maybe the true thing is Mars has water well below the surface. But we’ll tell you a little bit later. Where do they go, there’s another theory. Isn’t that fascinating?

3:25 Speaker 1 That is fascinating. And I’m still fascinated by the moons of Mars because so many people said some of them, those two might be artificial. We don’t. We really don’t know. I understand if somebody’s gonna say they’re going to try to send a some kind of a drone up in those moons, right.

3:48 Speaker 2 They’re going to send the spacecraft, the phoebote Robe, which will actually land on the surface of Phobos, which is actually the larger of the two Martian moons. And we don’t know what to expect. I mean, more than likely, John, from a strong and astrophysics, they’re probably bodies that were captured a long time ago. But here’s the answer to

4:05 this that we’re talking about where the water go. Here’s what many astrogeologists believe. Mars core solidified. It has no magnetic field like the Earth, which has a molten core, as we know, and since it’s core solidified, it had no magnetic field. It still doesn’t have one. So what does that mean. It means that the area above Mars,

4:26 its atmosphere, which is mostly carbon dioxide, it doesn’t have that protective blanket like we do around our Earth, thank goodness, we do, so that all that solar radiation literally just baked off the water as it evaporated into space. So that’s one of the theories as to where the water went on the surface of Mars, a planet. That’s so

4:45 amazing because we tell people this particular weekend as we move into April, the most amazing things you can see is the moon as it grows to be full in early April. We’ll talk about that next week in detail, but you can see Venus and Mars in the sky pretty easy. And this is fascinating, John, as we open

5:03 people’s minds to take a look up in the sky. And how about this next week with you’re okay, let’s talk about how the moon is connected to the date of Eastern It’s the date of passovers we called the Paschal moon, and also the Orthodox easter that’s April was sixteenth.

5:19 So we move into this beautiful spring, this beautiful month of April, and so many things to talk about here, and it’s always a pleasure to be able to share this with you and your audience.

5:30 Speaker 1 And in addition, I understand there was a foreign spacecraft by one of the countries. I don’t know which country that has located a water on the Moon too.

5:44 Speaker 2 Well, Yes, there was a little spacecraft that came out of a rover on the far side of the Moon. Remember it’s not the dark side of the moon. We love King Floyd too, but the far side of the moon.

5:53 This little spacecraft that landed there and no spacecrafts had done a wole thing called you two. It’s like a little tiny rover. It’s actually detested water molecules on the surface of the Moon. But this isn’t totally breaking this John because a while ago there was an al Cross experiment.

6:09 What was that It was a booster rocket that was unintentionally slammed into the Moon. And I remember it a long time ago, right around two thousand and eight or nine. I was watching with the telescope as many to see if we could see a flash from the impact. But what happened with elkcrosts is they actually detected water in

6:25 the form of frozen ice. Obviously that’s what water is at the far south pole of the Moon. And again I mentioned before that the surface of the Moon, meaning the south pole of the Moon, is actually the coldest place in the Solar system. Now, how can that be?

6:39 We don’t know why. But if you go out to say these dwarf Pluto or Neptune out there in the far reaches of the Solar system, the area at the south pole of the Moon, which has water molecules and ice detected, very thin ice, you know, like a frost, is the coldest slice in the Solar system, well below

6:57 I believe if I’m accurate, and I think I am about four hundred and twenty degrees below zero farnheights. So water molecules detected by this little spacecrafts on the far side of the Moon adds to the story that the Moon has so many mysteries to share. And it’s great to share this with everybody again to want open our

7:15 minds on these subjects, a great time to do it.

7:17 Speaker 1 Steve Kates, doctor Sky, thank you so much for making us a little bit smarter. And I look forward to talking to you next week again. And there’s so many things to talk about. Maybe you’ll you’ll give us a heads up at a certain point during the week and we’ll tease it to our audience for the weekend. Audience.

7:39 Speaker 2 Always a pleasure, John, and check us out at WABC Radio dot JOm for the doctor s Guy experience both in the form of podcasts and blog and also John from many shows that I’ve done in my past, proud to talk about American exceptionalism in there. I think the listeners of this station will appreciate as we talk, as

7:57 you always talk about truth, justice and the American way. God bless the country, God bless America.

8:03 Speaker 1 God bless America, and God bless our country, and God bless our solar system that we survive. Thank you so.

8:09 Speaker 2 Much, it’s my pleasure. John, have a good morning.