March 18 Live Webcast
Live From the Aurora

LIVE FROM THE AURORA
Featuring real-time (but pre-recorded--you can't see an aurora at 13:00 hours Eastern, or be guaranteed an aurora on any one days-clouds, Sun-Earth conditions, etc!!!) interaction between students at selected science centers and planetariums, and aurora researchers and NASA scientists on location at Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska, during an actual sounding rocket launch window.

Science guests will include NASA Chief Scientist and astronaut, Shannon Lucid, astrophysicists from NASA Goddard, aurora experts from the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, the men and women from Poker Flat and NASA Wallops who prepare and fly the rockets, and many more. For more details, check out P2K's LIVE FROM THE AURORA website.

LIVE FROM THE AURORA is to appear on participating PBS stations (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS) from 13:00-14:00 hours Eastern, Tuesday March 18, 2003, and is part of NASA's Sun-Earth Day 2003. Broadcast dates and times may vary. Check your local PBS station at: http://www.pbs.org/whatson/index.html

Students can submit questions to Sun-Earth and aurora researchers and receive back answers in real time from 13:00-15:00 hours Eastern (1:00-3:00 p.m.) on that day only via the ON-AIR form that can be accessed via the INTERACT section of P2K's LIVE FROM THE AURORA website.

FOR PBS STATIONS AND THOSE ABLE TO ACCESS AMC-3 (formerly GE-3) VIA DIGICYPHER ONLY!!!
The program will be fed on the digitally encoded Ku channel 512 (not 511) on the Digicypher, on AMC-3 from 13:00-14:00 on March 18, 2003. Unlike for the first program, the feed and air dates and times are identical.

Again, if you have any questions about accessing the programming, please contact PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE at ptkinfo@passporttoknowledge.com or by phone at 973.656.9403