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Strange Universe With Bob Berman
Strange Universe

Weird winds

By Bob Berman
Published February 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM EST
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The Northeast U.S. is now in its single season that’s cloudy and windy, which might remind us of worlds where no breeze has ever stirred, where dust lies flat for billions of years. That’s what the Apollo astronauts saw. Tune in to hear about the characteristics of the planets: Mercury, Earth, Venus and of course we’ll talk about the Moon.

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