LE Podcast Mar 11, 2024

In today's podcast, Dan Novak and Ashley Thompson host the show and Dan tells listeners what they will hear.

First, Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins read a special writing contest entry from Natalia Lavryk who introduces the piece. The essay tells of a mysterious places in Ukraine. The writer introduces us to Dovbush Rock, a group of rocks in the Carpathian Mountains linked to a famous outlaw in Ukraine's past.

Then, John Russell has a report about a street artist based in Paris named Invader. The artist likes to make pieces of art made with ceramic or glass tiles. Invader has created over 4000 art works on every landmass of the word except Antarctica.

Next, Bryan Lynn reports on new data that suggests that Jupiter's moon Europa has less oxygen that expected. The data came from NASA's Juno spacecraft in 2022. Europa is a very large moon that is believed to have an ocean beneath its icy surface. The data suggests that Europa produces 12 kilograms of oxygen per second. But earlier estimates placed that value at 1000 kilograms per second. Scientists said it was the first time a spacecraft directly probed the moon's atmosphere.

That is followed by a discussion between Bryan and Dan about why were the recent results different from earlier estimates. Bryan also talks about NASA's new Jupiter spacecraft Europa Clipper which will reach the planet in the future.

Finally, Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins introduce our Lesson of the Day series based on VOA Learning English's Let's Learn English program. They start the series by talking about word stress which is important to expression in English.

Then, Dan and Ashley sign off.

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