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Exploring Saturn With Cassini
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker returns with the latest discoveries at the beautiful ringed planet, its moons and its rings. Emily...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Zero-G With OK Go!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The carefully-planned madness and joy of OK Go’s Upside Down and Inside Out Zero-G Video Shoot, Credit: OK Go
Have you seen it? OK Go has gone where no band has gone before to make a music video. Mat talks with Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind about the hazar...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: 2) Planet 9 theorists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin study the data in Mike’s Caltech office., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin fully expect a new and undemotable ninth planet will be found in the outer reaches of the solar system. The Calte...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Dawn Flies Low Over Ceres
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dawn had this view of Ceres at 86 degrees south latitude on Dec. 10, only three days after completing its descent to an average orbital altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers). , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
The Dawn Mission Chief Engineer Marc Rayman returns for another report on the ion-engine powered mission, now orbiting 240 miles above dwarf planet...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Master of the Moonrocks: Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan and moon rock curator Francis McCubbin, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Francis McCubbin is the new Astromaterials Curator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where the priceless collection includes the Apollo moonrocks. J...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Ad Astra Builds "The Martian's" Rocket Engine
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a VASIMIR-powered human interplanetary mission., Credit: Ad Astra Rocket Company
Mat Kaplan visits the Ad Astra Rocket Company in Texas where they are perfecting the VASIMIR electric rocket engine. Emily Lakdawalla has created a...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Spice Hits Anchorage Hard
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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And it hasn't slowed down.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 04:34
Congressman John Culberson on a Good Day for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist imagines viewing a Europa water geyser from the surface of Jupiter’s moon., Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
The newly-approved federal budget includes great news for fans of space exploration and development. Texas Congressman John Culberson led the fight...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Little Band That Could (news feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As the New Year approaches, Col. John Brodie is working tirelessly with the Virginia Military Institute's Regimental Band to prepare for their upco...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
High-tech Tools May Help Save Some Orchestras
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:52
A Tiny Explorer Called Twinkle
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s conception of Twinkle, the UK exoplanet atmosphere explorer, Credit: SSTL/Twinkle/DSS
A small but talented UK team is building Twinkle, a small spacecraft with a big mission—exploring the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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Solar System Revelations, and The World’s Biggest Telescope Threatened?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Credit: NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF
Emily Lakdawalla returns from the annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting with big news from around the solar system. Then we talk with scie...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
3D Bioprinter
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 3D printed coronary arterial tree. , Credit: Adam Feinberg Lab/Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering
3D printers can now create functional soft tissues like arteries.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation With Andy Weir of "The Martian"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Matt Damon as "The Martian", Credit: 20th Century Fox
It was the #1 New York Times bestseller, and as this week’s Planetary Radio premiered it was once again the most popular movie in the USA. “The Ma...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Life of the Law Episode #68: Thorpe's Body
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The body of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe rests in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...but some members of his family say he should be dug up...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
Big Rockets and Little LightSails
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Space Launch System on the Launchpad, Credit: NASA
Digital editor Jason Davis is a lucky guy. He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sai...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Imaging a Hot Young Jupiter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: “Hot young Jupiter” 51 Eri b as imagined in an artist’s conception., Credit: Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis, SETI Institute
Franck Marchis is on the team that has delivered an actual image of a young, hot world about 100 light years from Earth. We talk with him on the 20...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Weddings. Then, Now, and Beyond
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Weddings today do not mean what they used to, and for this very reason, people do their best to resurrect that lost meaning. In this episode, we tr...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
Humans Orbiting Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the view above Mars, Credit: NASA
Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon led the Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop last spring. They return with Casey Dreier as the report on that workshop is ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Zibi Turtle and Exploring the Ice Giants
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ice Giant Neptune, Credit: NASA
They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle celebrates NA...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: PI Dante Lauretta (r.) and Kevin Walsh in the Lockheed Martin clean room with OSIRIS-REx, Credit: Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta heads the most ambitious mission to an asteroid ever mounted. With one year left till launch, he returns to Planetary Radio with an ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Flying High on SOFIA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared telescope wide open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – soars over California's snow-covered Southern Sierras., Credit: NASA/Jim Ross
Planetary Radio returns to SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, but this time we fly in the giant 747 turned telescope plat...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Zooming In On Mars With Mastcam-Z
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Early plan for the lenses in a Mastcam-Z camera planned for the 2020 Mars rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Our reporting from the 2nd Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site Selection Workshop continues as we talk with Jim Bell and Justin Maki, leaders of the devel...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5