On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 September 2025:

Eric Philips: Australian Polar Explorer to Polar Orbiting Astronaut

Eric Philips OAM (born 30 April 1962) is an Australian polar explorer, adventurer, polar guide and now private astronaut aboard the Fram2 mission.

To learn more about Eric Philips and the Fram2 mission, listen to our two-part special episodes of The Space Show from October 2024:

* 2024.10.02 | Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 1: One More Orbit

* 2024.10.09 | Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 2: Greenland & Polar Orbit

Planet Earth: Season 6 — Episode 69

* Dr Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division Director, NASA, Washington D.C. speaking at COP26 in 2021.

The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow on 31 October – 13 November 2021.

* 50th Anniversary of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Program

Since 1975, NOAA's GOES Satellites have provided continuous imagery and data on atmospheric conditions and solar activity (space weather). They have even aided in search and rescue of people in distress. GOES data products have led to more accurate and timely weather forecasts and better understanding of long-term climate conditions.

* The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) on the International Space Station studies air glow caused by Atmospheric Gravity Waves.

* Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM Microwave Imager (GMI)

* Aerosols with Erika Podest, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

* Gavin Schmidt, Climate Scientist answers the question: How do we know what the climate of the Earth was like in the distant past?

Gavin Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate.