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The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this stunning view of the Carina Nebula, located about 7,500 light-years from Earth. Nicknamed the "cosmic cliffs," it is essentially a nursery for young stars., Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
NASA and its partners have revealed the first stunning images from the new space telescope. We’ll talk about them with Bill Nye and members of the ...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cover of Lori Garver's great new book., Credit: Diversion Books
Lori Garver went up against powerful forces inside and outside NASA to create the hugely successful commercial cargo and crew programs.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Day serves as a reminder of the threat posed to our planet by near-Earth objects, and the campaign to protect ourselves from them., Credit: Asteroid Day Foundation
A co-founder of the annual, worldwide event, and the leader of the European Space Agency’s planetary defense program mark the 114th anniversary of ...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This image taken by The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft on Feb. 27, 2021 shows the Red Sea, Nile River, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and surrounding areas. North is approximately at top right., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate the third anniversary of LightSail 2’s launch with Bill Nye and other leaders of The Planetary Society.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Red Planet beckons., Credit: NASA
Mat Kaplan helped host the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C., where much of the community that is working to get us to Mars gathered.

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
¿QPM? S7 Ep. 6 Latinos & Los Derechos and Equal Representation
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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En este episodio, te contamos más acerca de tus derechos.

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 12:05
Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's grand finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We were there when the spacecraft ended 13 years of exploration and revelation at Saturn.

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Today Antarctica, tomorrow Europa: Britney Schmidt explores under the ice
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronomer and planetary scientist Britney Schmidt braves the Antarctic cold to prepare us for exploring ice worlds., Credit: Britney Schmidt
Britney Schmidt is preparing us for the day when a submarine will slip into the seas of an ocean world like Europa to search for life.

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  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Perseverance is joined by Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, in Jezero crater., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The Mars 2020 rover has rolled into an ancient river delta on the Red Planet. Will we find evidence of past life there?

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  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan talked with Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton with the spacecraft beside them in this JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Suit up for a clean room encounter with the Psyche spacecraft that will soon launch toward the asteroid belt.

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  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The End of Astronauts?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Will humans go beyond low Earth-orbit to explore destinations like Mars first-hand? Or will we leave this to robots?, Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and science writer Don Goldsmith question the value of putting astronauts in harm’s way at great expense in ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Yuri’s Night: Join the party!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor greets the 2022 Yuri's Night audience., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Thousands celebrated the 51st anniversary of the first human voyage into space. We’ll take you to the Los Angeles party under the Space Shuttle End...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise's NASA portrait., Credit: NASA
Fred Haise takes us on board the mission that almost didn’t make it home from the Moon.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Overdose Crisis in San Francisco: Part Two
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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In this episode, the second in a two-part series, we talk to experts about what measures have been taken to address this health crisis, how people ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
The Overdose Crisis in San Francisco: Part One
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Refugee Stories from Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we hear stories from people seeking refuge, and how war and immigration policy impact people on the ground.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miracles Club
A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL NEPTUNE MOSAIC WITH GREAT DARK SPOT This mosaic is composed of approximately 20 images taken through green or clear filters about 2 to 3 days prior to Voyager 2's closest approach. It has been colorized with lower-resolution data ta, Credit: NASA / JPL / Björn Jónsson
Leaders of the Neptune Odyssey study for the next planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey share their team’s exciting approach for an ice...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This is IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer Principal Investigator, a new and unique X-ray space telescope., Credit: NASA/MSFC
X-ray astronomy is vital to solving some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Martin Weisskopf’s brand new space telescope has joined the effort.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Data shows an increase in street fires, but that’s not the whole story
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A look at homeless encampment fires in the Bay Area with Three journalists at the San Francisco Public Press and Mission Local have been tracking f...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Who has received the first STEP grants?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is used by Jean-Luc Margot to listen for technosignatures of extraterrestrial intelligence., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory
The Planetary Society’s new Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program will let citizens join the search for ET and enable...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Tenant protections are expiring, and thousands are waiting on rent assistance
From: KSFP
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A California program helping renters who accumulated rent debt during the pandemic is about to expire, leaving them under threat of eviction. The S...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:30

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