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Earth Science:
The split of the ozone hole over the Antarctic was of great media
attention. CBS Evening News featured a story with visualizations
and annotated the images to guide television viewers of the location
and the splitting of the hole. CNN did an interview with
Paul Newman to explain the nuances of this year's hole and
more than 15 stories were broadcast on CNN networks. In addition,
several major media networks and their affiliates broadcast stories
of the splitting ozone, which totaled to 199, to an estimated audience
of 25-30 million.
Space Science:
Spaceflight
now.com featured an article on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-I
(TDRS-I) reaching orbit after a delay that was due to one of the
two fuel tanks aboard the satellite not pressurizing properly shortly
after its March 8 launch.
Space.com
featured an article regarding seeing the life cycle of black hole
emissions. The article discusses the observing of high-energy jets,
which has been done with the use of spacecraft such as NASA's Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Kim Weaver
an astrophysicist at Goddard is quoted in the article providing
an explanation of the jets and why this observance is significant.

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