beautiful temperatures out there tonight. conditions pretty clear, in the next few days we are going to stay clear but we are going to see warm weather. i promise we are going to get done with that pretty soon though. we will be back into the 70s, and we are cooling down nicely tonight. that's a real difference that you have probably felt in the last few nights. cooler temperatures feels a lttle bit more like fall, 69 right now at sky harbor, very

an hour, and as you look at kind of a wide shot you'll see there's not a whole lot of activity throw the southwest, a little bit different story to the north. we'll get to that in just a moment. what we are seeing is an area of low pressure blushing northern arizona, responsible for -- brushing northern arizona responsible for the breezy conditions that we have seen, high pressure is going to start to control for the start of the workweek. we could see numbers close to record tying as we get into the middle of the workweek. right now, chilly in many sp low, 55 for douglas. in the valley, things looking great, 60s, upper 60s for deer valley and sky harbor, still holding on to those 70s in ahwatukee and the mid-60s for fountain hills and for apache junction. another warm one today. we came in seven degrees above the seasonal norm, hitting 84 for our afternoon high but it

afternoon high then that set our record was 93-degree, just to put things into perspective for you. i want to show you the national picture real quickly, because we do have a few pockets of active weather, kind of a rain and snow mix in the intermountain west, the real story tonight the tennessee valley temperatures, one of the first freezes they have seen, temperatures dropping into freezing tonight and tomorrow, and the very chilly atlantic coastline as well. otherwise, things are looking great out there. 31 and sedona, 45 for kingman, into the 60s for yuma, 55 for casa grande, 42 for payson and 44 for nogales, and grand canyon tomorrow, beautiful there, u6 three degrees, a few -- 63 degrees a few degrees cooler in flag, 70

84 degrees, once again we should be seeing those 70s, and we are going to continue with the above average temperatures for a few days, but then the big changes come as we see yet another system, a dry cold front coming wednesday into thursday. look at that nice cool air that we get as a result of that into the 70s, as we get into the end of your workweek. so if your workweek is dragging on and you can't wait for a friday, i think the nice forecast, well, i'm already ready for friday. is that bad? >> no, that's fine. >> today is my >> six days a week for all of us. >> hold on to friday, guys. it's going to be gorgeous. >> never let it go. >> yeah, exactly. >> thank you, kristy. st. mary's food bank serving men and women for veterans day, how the food bank is showing

you're watching the best, fox 10 news. well, buying all of the food you need to serve your family for thanksgiving can get very expensive. >> just a little bit. >> yeah. >> and our servicemen and women will be giving thanks to st. mary's food bank after they help by giving them a f for the holidays, all part of st. mary's turkeys for troops program, the food boxes distribute at 52nd street and armory near thomas. included in the box, things for a thanksgiving meal. >> you would be surprised how far a little food can go when you are struggling. >> quite a bit of money, it

>> that is a lot of money. around 2000 food boxes were given out to our servicemen and women in need. free dental services being offered out in chandler earlier today. akeelah family and cosmetic dentistry offering their services for free from 8:00 this morning until 4:00 this morning, all part of their dental health day, the free services cleanings, fillings, and extractions, saying this is their way of saying thank you to the community. >> we have been so blessed the last year. the community has really supported us, and this is just a way of giving back. and i just feel grateful to be able to do this. >> nascar is in town this weekend if you're feeling the

races were held yesterday at international raceway. there is another big race tomorrow, marking the final race in the chase for the nascar sprint cup round of eight. speaking of speed, gcu running the floor, taking on the number one team in the country, as in, yeah, the duke blue devils, are you kidding me?

you're watching fox 10 sports with richard saenz. >> i know. the suns don't have the best of records, but this team is trending in the right direction. they are young and talented, but we'll have to suffer through some growing pains the suns hosting the nets, yes, that's

check out t.j. warren with the putback slam. take another look. he gets sky high. i think i slammed that one too hard. how about the rookie, marquise chris taking it to the rack. this kid is something special. eric bled final score 122-104. the nets get their first victory on the road this season. we stay on the hard court, grand canyon, the lopes hooping it up with the duke blue devils, the number one team in the country, but gcu had the early lead. with the hesitation move, takes it to the buck and gets it to go. g.c.u. had the early lead but it wouldn't last. here come the blue devils and

working low, getting the hoop and harm, and he shows off his range, three-ball, corner pocket, that one is good. nothing but net. allen, great body control, gets the bucket to go. he had 25 points, ten rebounds, final score 96-61. ekman-larsson going with the camoufla how about the flag on the ice. that is a beautiful sight right there. no score in the 2nd, not for long, boston on the attack, ryan spooner from point-blank range from the doorstep, pokes it through, makes it 1-0 boston. bruins back for more, they light the lamp and take a 2-0 lead, final score 2-1.

xfinity series on the track tonight, and that is kyle busch. he's one of the best in the business, and filling in for dale ernhardt, jr., gets loosey-goosey on the turn, going into the wall, he is on fire. when the smoke clears, it was guess who, kyle busch, out in front, he's your big winner, setting things up for the big race tomorrow. oh, yeah, it's going to be a lot of stuff going on out on the west side of this state right here or the cardinals hosting the 49ers, and of course that race they both started at 2:00. if you're going to either one, leave early. >> yes, that will be a nightm nightmare. >> hey, enjoy your saturday. we'll see you tomorrow.

>> ? music ? >> newsmaker sunday, with fox 10's john hook. >> thanks for joining us on newsmaker sunday. you might not think about asu as being a place on the cutting edge of space and space exploration, but asu really has developed an amazing program in this area, and dr. craig hardgrove is the assistant professor, school of earth and space exploration. also our guest this week, hannah kerner who is the luna h-map software lead. what does that mean, hannah? lead? >> i am in charge of designing the flight software that runs the spacecraft and all of the instruments on board the spacecraft, as well as being primarily in charge of writing that software. >> let's talk about that for a minute, because asu right now on the cutting edge, this is the next platform for nasa, the next rocket that will take an array of satellites into different projects around wherever they go.

hydrogen. >> right. >> why is that important, to try to see where hydrogen deposits might be? >> geologically, we aren't really sure why there's a lot of deposits of hydrogen at the poles. we understand that the pole sort of wobbles over time and we concentrate water at the poles of any planet that has water on it. but the moon is very dry, from what we know. passing asteroids or comets might shed off water, and that would sort of get deposited in a blanket uniformly around the moon, and it gets redistributed over time. so you get meteorites that impact on the moon and sort of ballistically shoot the hydrogen around and it ends up in the places that are the coldest. that's the only place it's stable. those places on the moon are these shadowed craters that are permanently in darkness all the time at the south pole because of the topography down there. as the moon rotates the light never gets in and so we know from about two other missions that there's enrichments of hydrogen there but we don't know where they are. they might be up in a corner

they might be distributed uniformly throughout the crater, and that's important for understanding how much there is which would tell us about the geologic history of the moon. is it all there just from passing comets or asteroids? is it implanted by the solar wind? understanding those kinds of questions about the history of the solar system are important. >> so we don't know yet, hannah, everything, even though we've been there. we've walked on it. we've been there several times. we don't know everything there is to know about the moon yet. >> absolutely not. not even close. >> what would be, say, 1 out of 100, where are we, what percentage are we, of what we know about the moon? 60%? >> i don't think we can even know the amount that there is to know about the moon. even the total of what there is to know is unknown. so to be able to say how much we know is really impossible. >> to take the next step, is this important that we know about the moon because of missions to mars? is this linked in any way? >> absolutely. i mean, one aspect of that is

you can think of technologically why you would want to know how much water is on the moon, because it's much easier to get a rocket to mars if you launch off the moon. so if we just launch our resources to get to the moon and then we can use the hydrogen that we are finding in these permanently shadowed regions to convert into fuel for these rockets, it's going to take a lot less fuel to get to mars, and we can bring more things with us. >> okay, we're going to go really basic here. it's easier to launch from the moon because of the lack of gravitational pull. >> it's a much smaller gravitational pull. >> you don't need as much of a rocket to do it, a propulsion system. >> so, the biggest challenge in spacecraft and, like space exploration at all, is overcoming earth's gravity well. so, gravity on the moon is a sixth of the gravity on the earth. >> that's why our astronauts bounced around up there. pretty cool to see that video still. >> it's very expensive to launch all that stuff into space, too.

that we don't have something like that, like we had in the 60's, the mission to the moon, the 60's and 70's, that really coalesced the scientific community, the public opinion, pride, all of those things that really, the things that came out of that program technologically were amazing. >> absolutely, absolutely. and, yes, speaking personally i think we do need some kind of vision like that and that's part of what we are doing. we are catching a ride on the space launch system, sos rocket, which will be bringing astronauts eventually back into the solar system on a nasa-built rocket. part of the accommodation of the orion capsule, that's where the astronauts actually live inside and to be delivering the astronauts to the asteroid belt or to the moon or eventually to a spacecraft that will take them to mars, this is just sort of the first step and

small spacecraft like our own that can have their own little investigations and contribute to the primary missions. our mission is not necessarily related to the orion capsule in this case but we are demonstrating that capability for future missions. >> let's bring you up to speed on that, because this cube sat project is amazing, and nicole garcia went out to asu and this will kind of give you an idea what they are working on and it's remarkable. take a look. >> this is what asu scientists have invented. it basically, a miniature spacecraft and in a couple of years, it'll be launching to go to the moon. it's a huge first for asu. a team of about 60 professors and scientists will be designing, building and operating a mini satellite for nasa which will search for hydrogen and water on the moon. >> we had a great idea here to fly very low over the south pole and map these deposits of hydrogen where we think water is bound up in the south pole of these permanently shadowed craters of the south pole of the moon, and nasa thought that was a great idea, too.

received, they selected ours. >> the shoebox sized spacecraft, called a cube sat, will hitch a ride out of this planet on a nasa rocket, eventually making its way to the moon's orbit. >> we have a small propulsion system on this end that we'll actually use to put ourselves into lunar orbit. so we'll be in a, it's called an elliptical orbit. very elliptical, it allows us to skim over the south pole of the moon, very low, and mounted on this side of the spacecraft we'll have a neutron spectrometer, and that's sensitive to hydrogen. measurements that we want to make. >> the instruments on the cube sat will measure and map pockets of hydrogen and ice, trying to pinpoint where water might be on the south side of the moon, paving the way for humans to eventually reach the area and maybe one day, make an historic lunar discovery. the launch date is scheduled for 2018 and it's expected to actually reach the moon by the end of 2019. i'm nicole garcia, fox 10 news. >> and with us again on newsmaker sunday, dr. craig

and space exploration, and hannah kerner, who is the luna h-map software lead on the project. fascinating, and you're designing it right now. so up goes this new nasa rocket, that's, how is it different than past propulsion systems from nasa? is this rocket much different? >> it's sort of a reversion to what we were doing back in the apollo era when we were launching astronauts on a capsule, up to lunar orbit, so we'd need a very similar mission architecture to that. it's certainly more -- >> it's a saturn rocket. >> and the capsule, too. if you look at the orion capsule that the humans actually stay in, it looks much more like the gemini and apollo capsules than, it doesn't look like a space shuttle. >> oh sure, because the shuttle is basically a bus. >> yes, it's a capsule and they drop it into the ocean. >> so when this goes up in 2018, there will be several different experiments. how many, 18? >> about 13.

off. >> basically bus stops along the way to the moon. >> they will be dropped out? shot out? how does it work? >> they are deployed. it's called a deployer and just on a spring and we are, the front door opens and we're shot out of the side of the secondary payload deployer. it's a ring. many meters across and sort of slowly rotating and we get deployed at the appropriate spot. >> in that mission where are you guys are in that line of 13? >> we need to get off very quickly. so you guys saw the small box, it's a shoebox size spacecraft, and that's everything inside there. we have a radio, we have our instrument, we have our propulsion system and solar panels, and so our propulsion system is very small, and it's not going to be nearly as capable as, say, the s-l-s rocket. we need to spend a long time slowing down, that rocket is shooting out very fast on its way to the moon. we need it to turn around and slow down. >> so, retro-rockets, or something like that to try to-- >> we are actually using an ion drive, which is fun.

currently in orbit, it was orbiting the asteroid vesta, and ceres, used as the first demonstration of an ion propulsion system. >> so what is your role in this project, hannah? >> everything that happens on board the spacecraft is determined by a software command. something on this flight computer says, now it's time to start slowing down. slow down by this much. this is how much ions we're going to be shooting out at any given time. when do we talk to earth? when do we receive things from earth? all of that is controlled by software. i'll be designing the system that commands the spacecraft and communicates within it. >> you're really more a computer person, then. >> yes. >> and that's your -- >> i'm a computer scientist. >> so you've got, who takes care of the physics to decide what needs to be done and then you program it? how does that work? >> we have a team scattered throughout the country. this is sort of the same as you would design any big nasa mission. we have to have all of the

analysis and trajectory design team. they're the same folks that did the design for the messenger mission to mercury and you guys probably saw the cool pictures of pluto recently. they design the trajectory for that mission as well, which took 10 years. they have tons of experience, basically figuring out how to tell us what to do so we can make sure we get in orbit around the moon. >> and then you've got to program it. >> yup. >> wow. >> very collaborative. it's not somebody tells me here, put this in. we all get to have this conversation. it's really fun. >> i'm curious on something that big, where every step is critical to make it a success, how do you troubleshoot that and make sure every step is right? are there just tons of eyes looking at it, looking at it again and again and again? how does that work? >> we will have multiple people developing the software and checking each other like with any software application to make sure you get everything. we also have, there is flight heritage.

that we are building off of for this has also been flown on other missions. so it's not like we're starting from scratch. >> you can even model it, right? >> right. >> you can simulate it. >> yeah, and we can do, it's called hardware in the loop tests, where we will have a little model of the spacecraft and our components that we can simulate everything that will happen before we are launching. >> one of the fantastic things about these cube sat ideas is that you can actually build what we call a flat set, just on the side of your desk, and and do all your testing at your desk, at your office, and so, as opposed to a large spacecraft like is traditionally flown that requires you to go travel or integrate your component into it to do any testing, we can do the entire end to end test for the most part at our desk. >> how did asu end up selected for this? because everybody, there's money on the line. there's research on the line. you all have to put in a submission. >> yeah, yeah. nasa put out a call about a year ago for ideas and about

teams put together packages to submit to nasa headquarters and ours was one that was selected. there were only two. and one was sort of enter earth orbit, a lower budget, but not as large of a mission. ours was the only mission that was selected that had a propulsion system, a large scale spacecraft with the science goal of making these maps of the moon. it really, only one very large proposal was selected out of that process, and it was here at asu. it's really unique for asu. we have a ton of experience, like you robinson of 'lroc' and phil christensen and jim bell on mastcam and those are instruments on larger spacecrafts but this is an opportunity for asu to build, design, test, and fly and operate a spacecraft all out of asu. >> can we talk for a moment and i want to explore this a little more in the next segment, manned versus unmanned. can we learn what we need to learn without putting people in spacecrafts? or are they, do they augment each other? >> i don't think it's versus.

unmanned. as a computer scientist, of course i love robots. but as a cooperative -- >> it's a lot less expensive. >> it is less expensive, but not always, because it depends on what you allow the robot to do. so i think the human traverses on the moon have been far longer in terms of distance than curiosity has traveled on mars. >> yet, to try to keep astronauts alive during the duration of the flight and all of the redundancies to keep them alive, that is wickedly expensive. >> it is extremely expensive. >> truth be told, curiosity can't just go flip over a rock or drill as easily as a human might be able to deploy a drill. >> so far. >> so far, until hannah invents a robot that can do that for us. it is much quicker to have a person on the ground exploring and there is that human element that's really important to get people excited and invested in the exploration of space. it harkens back to how we

it was done. we didn't do it with robots, necessarily. >> when we come back on newsmaker sunday we are going to talk about the ultimate question, are we alone here? that's really what we get at, when we get into space exploration and learning about how our galaxy was formed. how our world was formed. we're going to talk about those things when we come back on newsmaker sunday, with our guests.

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