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In the Lab with Planetary Scientist Sarah Hörst
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarah Hörst demonstrates the glove box in her Johns Hopkins University planetary science lab., Credit: Mat Kaplan
A conversation with Johns Hopkins University planetary scientist Sarah Hörst is capped by a tour of her fascinating lab. That’s where Sarah and her...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio host and his Mirror Lab tour guide Buell Jannuzi with one of the seven huge mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. , Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for a tour of the University of Arizona’s Mirror Lab where they use a giant, spinning oven filled with molten glass to create the primary m...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May., Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laurie Leshin has just become the tenth director of JPL and the first woman to run the fabled center for space science and robotic exploration.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Where Do We Come From? – Exploring the Origins of Life Lab
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ralph Pudritz, an astrophysicist and professor in McMaster’s Department of Physics and Astronomy; Maikel Rheinstadter, a biophysicist and professor in McMaster’s Department of Physics and Astronomy; and Yingfu Li, a biochemist and professor in McMaster’s , Credit: Sarah Janes
They may be the most important questions in all of science: Where do we come from? Are we alone? Researchers Ralph Pudritz and Maikel Rheinstadter...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Lane Anliker, Organizer for SEIU Local 1199NW and Karla Castillo, Lab Assistant
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Mark Lowry: Lane and Karla explain what is going on at the hospital in Bellingham, WA and what is up with non-profit hospitals in gene...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:01
Dr. Kenneth Mandl, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab, Boston Children's Hospital
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kenneth Mandle, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Mandl is a pi...

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  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Looking back on Voyager’s 45th Anniversary
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With the full size Voyager spacecraft mockup behind them in JPL's von Karman Auditorium, host Mat Kaplan is joined by Project Manager Suzanne Dodd, NASA Heliophysics Divison leader Nicola Fox, and Voyager Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker., Credit: Mat Kaplan/The Planetary Society
Planetary Radio’s creator Mat Kaplan guest hosts for this look back at the Jet Propulsion Lab’s celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Voyager ...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-CalTech
Getting precious Mars rocks into Earthbound labs is an unprecedented challenge. We’ll hear how a lander, a rocket, a big solar-powered transfer veh...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Planetary Radio Live: MAVEN Arrives at Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio Live celebrates MAVEN's arrival at Mars in Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum, Credit: Loren Roberts
The latest guest of the Red Planet arrived in orbit on the evening of September 22, 2014. Planetary Radio Live was watching with fingers crossed in...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Unexpected Space Center: Los Alamos National Laboratory
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a black hole emitting gamma-ray bursts., Credit: NASA
This US research center has been part of more than 200 space missions, but it’s not a NASA facility! The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexi...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
7 More Minutes of Terror: Perseverance Arrives at Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA's Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
JPL engineer Gregory Villar prepares us for the perilous descent and landing of the 2020 Mars rover on February 18th.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
InSight’s Mole: A Martian Science Odyssey
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The heat-flow probe known as the mole sticks out of the Martian surface in this image captured by NASA's InSight spacecraft in February 2020. Engineers and scientists spent nearly two years using InSight's robotic arm to help the mole dig before formally , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA engineer and scientist Troy Hudson shares the sad but ultimately inspiring story of a two-year attempt to dig deep beneath the surface of Mars.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
94: What Happens When Sexual Assault Goes Unpunished? - Sarah Delia, "She Says"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sarah Delia, Credit: Logan Cyrus
When radio journalist Sarah Delia heard a story about the sexual assault of one of her listeners, “Linda” (not her real name), she knew it was a st...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
New Horizons Flyby: Join the Celebration!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Millions around the world watched as the New Horizons spacecraft encounters the most distant object ever visited., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us at the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland for the New Horizons encounter with the most distant object ever visited. You’ll meet mission leader...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity rover captured the images used to create this mosaic of Martian clouds over Mont Mercou on 19 March 2021., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Scientists need your help identifying clouds high above the surface of the red planet. The goal is figuring out where Mars’ water went.

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Yuri’s Night: For all SpaceKind
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Tawny Newsome interviews astronaut Jessica Watkins and SpaceX Inspiration4 pilot Sian Proctor at the 2023 LA Yuri's Night celebration at the California Science Center, discussing their unique journeys to space and their meaning for the future of explorati, Credit: David Pinsky
Join us as we delve into the heart of LA's 2023 Yuri's Night party, a celebration commemorating Yuri Gagarin's pioneering 1961 voyage into space.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Midterm Voters Found Mail-In Ballot Process Had Few Problems Nationwide
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Midterm Voters Found Mail-In Ballot Process Had Few Problems Nationwide

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
Something Old and Something New: Exciting Research on the International Space Station
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst learns how to use a sextant in the ISS cupola., Credit: NASA
Sextants have helped sailors find their way across oceans for centuries. Now one is onboard the International Space Station so that astronauts can ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
A Last Visit With LightSail 2 at the Cubesat Developers Workshop
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail 2 in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo clean room, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Mat Kaplan visits Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a last, clean room visit with LightSail 2, the Planetary Society’s solar sailing cubesat. While the...

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  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: InSight Launch Party at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. L to R: Bruce Betts, Troy Hudson, Mat Kaplan and Jennifer Jackson, Credit: Andrew Pauly, The Planetary Society
Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in wi...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 29, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Federal Forces Deployed to Portland Provoke Violence & Rebellion Against I...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Sc...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The DART Mission: Learning How to Swat Dangerous Asteroids
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft approaches Didymos A and B., Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Why did the dinosaurs die? Because they didn’t have a space program! The upcoming DART mission will test our best thinking about how we may someday...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Democracy News Wasn’t All Bad in 2023; MI, MN, NM, CT, PA, & NY All Passed Substantial Pro-Voter Legislation
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report, Credit: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Democracy News Wasn’t All Bad in 2023; MI, MN, NM, CT, PA, & NY All Passed Substantial Pro-Voter Legislation

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

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