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Electric Cars - Pros and Cons, Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. David Rapson, Economic Policy Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank and Professor of Economics, University of California, and Dr. Beia Spiller, ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials., Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The ion engine-powered Dawn spacecraft will orbit Ceres for many years. Could it have touched down on the surface of the dwarf planet?

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Giving Venus the Love (and Science) She Deserves
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A radar view of Venus reveals the surface of the cloud-shrouded planet., Credit: Mattias Malmer/NASA/JPL
We have so much to learn about Venus, says JPL scientist Sue Smrekar. What we learn will help us understand our own world and Mars. Sue joins us ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KDNK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
It’s a Hard Rain on Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan's surface, some filled with liquid, and some appearing as empty depressions. The data were obtained by Cassini's radar instrument from 2004 to 2013., Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / USGS
A computer model based on our best data about Saturn’s cloud-shrouded moon says that torrential liquid methane pounds the surface far more frequent...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Mysterious Tabby’s Star, With Tabby Herself
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of uneven dust ring surrounding “Tabby’s Star” KIC 8462852, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It may not host an alien “megastructure” but Tabby’s Star still guards many mysteries of science. Astronomer and astrophysicist Tabetha “Tabby” Boy...

Bought by KDNK, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
President Trump Sets Course for the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Representatives of Congress and the National Space Council, along with several astronauts, joined President Donald J. Trump, for the president’s signing of Space Policy Directive 1., Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
On December 11th President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that firmly points the US space effort toward the Moon, but without providing many deta...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Leaving Behind a Life on Mars—Former Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Former Curiosity Rover Project Scientist John Grotzinger, Credit: Mat Kaplan
The Mars Science Laboratory rover has accomplished its primary goals on the Red Planet, and John Grotzinger has left his central role to become Cha...

Bought by WTJU, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Dr. J and the World's Biggest Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the completed European Extremely Large Telescope, Credit: ESO
Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now und...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Exciting Year Ahead on the Final Frontier
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the Dawn spacecraft approaching Ceres in the asteroid belt., Credit: NASA/JPL
The Planetary Society’s experts look forward to a great year of firsts in the solar system and beyond. Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a status ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Where Did The Air Go? Bruce Jakosky on the MAVEN Mars Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The MAVEN spacecraft circling Mars., Credit: NASA/GSFC
Not just the air. Where is the water that was plentiful on the red planet billions of years ago? MAVEN may help answer these questions. Principa...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WSLR, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
Cassini is Safe! Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mighty Saturn and its rings, imaged by the Cassini spacecraft., Credit: JPL/NASA
Project scientist Linda Spilker returns with a regular update on Saturn, its moons and rings not long after learning that the mission is funded thr...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Congressman Lamar Smith on Planetary Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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The Chairman of the powerful Science, Space and Technology Committee in the US House of Representatives joins us for a talk about planetary science...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of New Horizons passing through the Pluto system., Credit: NASA/Thierry Lombry
New Horizons passed through the orbit of Neptune on August 25th. By cosmic coincidence, it was the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s flyby of that b...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
A Death-Defying Climax for Venus Express
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Venus Express Enters the Venusian Atmosphere, Credit: European Space Agency
Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem tells us about the spacecraft’s harrowing descent into the Venusian atmosphere, what it is currently ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Jay Barbree on "Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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In his 55 years as NBC’s space correspondent, Jay Barbree has won the respect and friendship of many astronauts. Neil Armstrong stands above them a...

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Keith Cowing and the Outrageous ISEE-3 Rebooters
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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They have generated excitement, enthusiasm and support throughout the world. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has succeeded in gaining control over the 36...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Living and Working on Mars—A Conversation at the International Space Development Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: First humans on the Red Planet, Credit: NASA
Planetary Radio visits the 33rd ISDC to talk with three explorers who’ve set their sights on the Red Planet: MD and space medicine researcher Susan...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WMNF


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Spinoff 2013: Bringing Space Technology Home
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASASpinoff, Credit: NASA
NASA has just published "Spinoff 2013," the latest of its annual reports on innovations developed for space that are solving problems and improving...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Microbes in Orbit--Cheryl Nickerson's Pioneering Biomedical Research
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cheryl Nickerson in her ASU lab, Credit: NASA
You may have heard that the sometimes deadly Salmonella bacterium becomes stronger in microgravity. That was just one of the promising results of e...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Emily Lakdawalla at the LPSC While Alan Stern Stirs Up the Solar System
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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A busy show, as Emily shares highlights from last week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and Alan Stern provides updates on the Rosetta com...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Surprising Budget News for Planetary Exploration
From: Mat Kaplan
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Good news, for a change! Congress decided to provide $127 million more for planetary science than was requested by the President. Bill Adkins of Ad...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Radio Live Celebrates the Mars Rovers
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Family portrait of the Mars Rovers, Credit: JPL/NASA
Opportunity has been rolling across Mars for 10 years! We celebrate the Mars Exploration Rovers and their sisters on the red planet at Planetary R...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, KSKQ, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
The Gemini Planet Imager: Making Worlds Visible
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Gemini Planet Imager first light image of exoplanet Beta Pictoris a
Principal Investigator and physicist Bruce Macintosh joins astronomer Franck Marchis to celebrate first light from the most powerful instrument for...

Bought by WMNF, Marfa Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 6
Amy Mainzer Hunts Killer Asteroids With NEOWISE
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NEOWISE Mission Principal Investigator Amy Mainzer
Take a spacecraft that can no longer survey the realm of galaxies and repurpose it to discover thousands of much nearer asteroids and comets. Put i...

Bought by KSKQ, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Comet ISON's Spectacular Science Legacy
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Karl Battams, Comet ISON Observer
Maybe it wasn’t “the comet of the century,” but ISON has left a scientific legacy that is beyond compare. That’s according to Karl Battams of NASA’...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, WESM 91.3 FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4