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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
Spinoffs: How NASA Technologies Benefit Life on Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Spinoff 21 has been published online by NASA., Credit: NASA
We examine a few of the thousands of technologies and innovations developed by NASA that are making lives better around our planet.

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Touchdown! The Sights and Sounds of Perseverance on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance imaged as it is lowered to the Red Planet's surface by the sky crane., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Relive the most dramatic and awe-inspiring moments from NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars.

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Planetfest ’21: To Mars and Back Again
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mars awaits.
Author of The Martian Andy Weir and the leader of the United Arab Emirates’ successful Hope Mars orbiter mission joined other Mars all-stars at Pla...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
2021 Spring Fundraiser: Experiencing More With Less / Choice In The Food Industry
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about simplicity ...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:27
  • Purchases: 5
A Cosmic Odyssey: Decades of Discovery at the Palomar Observatory
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Hale Telescope dome at the Palomar Observatory, Credit: Palomar/Caltech
How astronomers at California’s Palomar Observatory revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
‘Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been artificial
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Harvard professor Avi Loeb takes issue with this cigar-like impression of interstellar object 'Oumuamua., Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
Is interstellar object ‘Oumuamua an alien artifact? Harvard professor Avi Loeb explores his hypothesis in a new book and in a fascinating conversat...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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
A Symphony for 7 Moons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Volcano Loki Patera erupts on Jupiter's moon Io. Io inspired the first movement of The Moons Symphony., Credit: NASA
Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg is joined by Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker and retired astronaut Nicole Stott as she shares excerpts from ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Solar Cruiser: A Giant Sail Prepares for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Solar Cruiser sail approaching the Sun, though it won't actually get nearly this close., Credit: NASA
NASA has given the green light to Principal Investigator Les Johnson and his team for construction of a solar sail that dwarfs all that have come b...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley are all smiles after safely returning to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on 2 August 2020. The mission, Demo-2, was the first crewed flight of NASA's Commercial Crew program., Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
In spite of everything, 2020 was a good year for space exploration according to five of The Planetary Society’s experts.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Might Walk on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Caption: NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson in the International Space Station cupola during one of her space shuttle missions., Credit: NASA
18 astronauts on the Artemis Team have a shot at walking on the Moon, and Stephanie Wilson is one of them.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Perseverance rover examining an outcrop on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere will be essential if humans are ever to visit and work on the Red Planet, and the MOXIE experiment will s...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Welcoming a New Leader, and China’s Audacious Moon Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: China's Chang'e-5 lunar lander makes an impression on the Moon., Credit: PRC
Bill Nye helps us welcome the Planetary Society’s new president who also leads a new Moon mission, while China’s lunar sample return spacecraft is ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Observatory Director Francisco Córdova on the Devastating Loss of Arecibo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The great radio telescope at Arecibo in better days., Credit: NSF/UCF
Host Mat Kaplan talked with the Arecibo Observatory director just hours before the giant radio telescope came crashing down.

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
More Moon Water and an Update from Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water., Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter
Astronomer Jane Greaves returns with an update on the phosphine gas floating above Venus, before Casey Honnibal takes us through her team’s discove...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Revealing Mars From Above, and Crew Dragon is Go!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these sand ripples and the large dune (at center) on Feb. 9, 2009. Color has been added to make textures easier to see., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Two pioneering Mars orbiters are still doing great work above the Red Planet, while the first operational Crew Dragon spaceship has delivered four ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
A Rogue World Wanders as PlanetVac Heads for the Moon and Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet., Credit: Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw
A distant, lonely planet has been discovered as it wanders the galaxy, while Bill Nye helps us celebrate selection of a radically-simple sample col...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist impression of TransAstra spacecraft., Credit: TransAstra Corporation
Joel Sercel believes we are entering an era in which asteroid mining and other commercial development of space are imminent, but he’s concerned abo...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Deep Dive into Asteroid Bennu With Dante Lauretta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: TOUCHDOWN ON ASTEROID BENNU! Rocks fly off asteroid Bennu after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched the surface to collect a sample on 20 October 2020. The sample head touched Bennu's surface for 6 seconds while a bottle of nitrogen gas stirred rocks and, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The leader of the OSIRIS REx asteroid sample return mission shares more details of last week’s encounter in an exclusive interview, while we also l...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
We Have Sampled an Asteroid! And the Search for Life Above Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: That's asteroid Bennu on the left. It's actually far smaller than Venus, revealed on the right by radar., Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appears to have collected its first sample from asteroid Bennu, while a team led by Jane Greaves has discovered what coul...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Protectors of Earth! (and Other Worlds)
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this image taken on May 20, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center, engineers and technicians insert 39 sample tubes into the belly of the Perseverance Mars rover. Each tube is sheathed in a gold-colored cylindrical enclosure to protect it from contamination, Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
NASA’s planetary protection officer joined Mat Kaplan’s Humans to Mars summit panel for a great conversation about protecting worlds throughout the...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Exploring the Cosmos With Heidi Hammel and AURA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of the fully-deployed James Webb Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2021., Credit: NASA
Astronomer and planetary scientist Heidi Hammel’s AURA shines bright across our solar system and beyond.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
A Fond Farewell: Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla in the JPL clean room as Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, was being readied for launch., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Planetary Society Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla makes a big announcement, and share stories from her long history with the organization.

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8