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Science Fiction Greats on Humanity’s Destiny in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: (L to R) David Brin, Geoffrey Landis, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven and Robert Zubrin at the 2017 Mars Society Convention, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society talks with Gregory Benford, David Brin, Geoffrey Landis and Larry Niven about terraforming Mars, the origin of li...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Sailing on the Light of the Sun With Lou Friedman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of heliogyro solar sail for 1980s Halley's Comet mission., Credit: NASA/JPL
The co-founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Planetary Society returns for a conversation about the allure of sailing through space. Digi...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker’s Last Appearance Before the Grand Finale
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of Cassini passing between Saturn and its rings, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It’s the Grandest Finale. The spectacular Cassini mission’s exploration of Saturn will end on September 15th when the spacecraft plunges into the ...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Dark Energy Attracts? Astrophysicists Jason Rhodes and Alina Kiessling
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astrophysicists Jason Rhodes& Alina Kiessling
JPL astrophysicists Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes were brought together by their fascination over the mystery of dark energy. They talk with Pla...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Planetary Radio Live! Living on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mars outpost concept, Credit: NASA
Will humans live, work and thrive on Mars? What challenges must be met before we can become Martians? On July 20th, the anniversary of the Apollo ...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Countdown to Jupiter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Juno will enter Jupiter orbit on July 4th. Mat Kaplan talks with the mission’s Principal Investigator, Scott Bolton at the Jet Propulsion Laborato...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Getting Humans To Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA
Three NASA leaders talk with host Mat Kaplan about the progress we're making toward leaving footprints on the Red Planet. Emily Lakdawalla showcase...

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  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
A Big Test for LightSail 2
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: LightSail 2 successfully deployed its sails in the May 23rd Day In The Life Test, Credit: Jason Davis
The Planetary Society’s solar sail spacecraft was in the middle of a critical test as we spoke with the Society’s Bruce Betts and Jason Davis. Mat...

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  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
At Space Symposium with the Leader of the European Space Agency
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A 2016 Space Symposium panel featuring the leaders of many national space agencies., Credit: Mat Kaplan
The annual Space Symposium in Colorado is a must-attend event for space leaders from around the world. Our coverage begins with ESA Director Genera...

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  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Found! Beagle 2 Lander is on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Orbital image of what is believed to be the Beagle 2 lander on surface of Mars., Credit: HiRISE/NASA/JPL/Parker/Leicester
The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been foun...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
Sara Seager's Quest for Earth's Twin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: MIT Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Sara Seager, Credit: Sara Seager/MIT
MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is on a quest. She wants to find a warm, wet exoplanet with signs of life. It could be Earth...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Spoiler alert. Famed physicist Kip Thorne says you might be able to survive a plunge into a black hole after all! That’s just one molecule of the ...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Digging Deep With Planetary Deep Drill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Business end of Planetary Deep Drill, Credit: Mat Kaplan
If there’s life on Mars, it’s probably deep beneath the surface. That’s just one reason we need a tool like Planetary Deep Drill on the red planet ...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
That Water in Your Glass May be Older Than the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Researchers have theorized that up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun. It likely formed in the cold molecular cloud that spawned our solar system., Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory
It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Smashing Holes in Mars to Find Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tel...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Journey to the Center of Jupiter: The World's Largest Lasers Simulate the Cores of Giant Planets
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to stu, Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL
The most bizarre things happen to matter at pressures millions of times higher than what we feel on Earth’s surface. Physicist Rip Collins of the L...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 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 ...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Astronomers Without Borders: Spreading the Wonder Worldwide
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sky party in Northern Iraq, Credit: Mike Simmons
Astronomers Without Borders Founder and President Mike Simmons and his colleagues share the passion, beauty and joy of the night sky from Argentina...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3