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The Case for a Return to Enceladus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of the late Cassini spacecraft approaching the giant water plumes emanating from the icy surface of Enceladus., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Flying a spacecraft through geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might reveal the building blocks of life or even life itself.

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The ESCAPADE Mars mission will consist of two identical satellites — “Blue” and “Gold” — that will study how the planet’s ionosphere and magnetic field interact., Credit: Rocket Lab
Can NASA send robotic explorers to Mars for a tiny fraction of what most missions cost?

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Nancy Collins Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that chronic wounds (those that have not healed in 12 weeks) affect approximately 6.5 million patients in the U.S. annually? Join Foo...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured the infrared, green, and blue-light images used to make pictures of the Martian south pole., Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford / Edited by The Planetary Society
New research indicates that what appeared to be liquid water hiding under Mars’ polar ice may actually be a form of clay.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: We are on the cusp of exploring what may be the best place in our solar system to look for life beyond Earth. That place is Jupiter’s moon Europa., Credit: NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Mission system manager Al Cangahuala says the robotic explorer of Jupiter’s ocean moon is making steady progress toward a 2024 launch.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Cassini, Voyager and beyond with Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Cassini spacecraft flies through the plumes emanating from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This still image is from a computer-animated film that highligts the Cassini-Huygens mission accomplishments., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Cassini mission project scientist returns with new science from ocean moon Enceladus and anniversaries to celebrate with the Voyager mission.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
How Perseverance Drives Itself Around Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Perseverance rover looks back over the tracks is has laid across Jezero Crater on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Perseverance rover’s chief robotics engineer takes us for a spin across Mars.

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
2021 Fall Fundraiser: Mapping The Geography Of Food / Predicting Success
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 culinary hi...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:19:45
  • Purchases: 5
Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in its payload configuration, carrying science experiments into a microgravity environment., Credit: Virgin Galactic
Planetary scientist and New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says great science will ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Orig...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Remembering Apollo 15 with author Andy Chaikin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Irwin with Apollo 15's Lunar Roving Vehicle. Developed in a breakneck 17 months, the LRV greatly extended the exploration range of final three Apollo missions., Credit: NASA/The Planetary Society
Space historian and author of A Man on the Moon Andy Chaikin returns as we celebrate Apollo 15’s 50th anniversary.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Tristan Brandhorst Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the commonly used fungicide, fludioxonil may cause oxidative damage to human cells? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered di...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amy Mainzer and a New Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission shows the space telescope in front of a star field captured by the WISE telescope., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The Planetary Society
NASA has approved development of the NEO Surveyor space telescope. Project lead Amy Mainzer will share her hopes for this vital planetary defense t...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
We’re Going Back to Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin
Leaders of the DAVINCI and VERITAS missions tell us what their spacecraft will reveal about the planet that is so much like Earth and yet so terrib...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
21-35 Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Mangoré, and more, Interview: Susan Sayles of Baylor University Medical Center
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Susan Sayles, Director of Arts In Medicine Program, Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, TX), Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Agustin Barrios Mangoré ,Jaime Zenamon, and a 2020 PBS filmed...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 65
21-34 Grieg, Debussy, Beethoven, Faure, Philip Glass, & more, Interview: Harpist/Music Thanatologist Terese Cullen
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Harpist Terese Cullen, Credit: Tony Morris January 2020
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Grieg, Debussy, Faure, Philip Glass, Jorge Morel, and Lou Harrison, and a 2020 PBS...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 66
21-33 Moonlight Sonata, Interview: Dr. Robert Fine, MD
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Dr. Robert Fine, MD, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” and music by Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Agustin Barrios Mang...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 65
21-32 Beethoven and more, Interviews: Music Therapist Chad Harmon, NICU Nurse Lilla Caho
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Music Therapist Chad Harmon with infant Jace Armstrong, Kendra Armstrong, Camera Op Spencer Greene, Baylor University Medical Center , Credit: Tony Morris January 2020
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Beethoven, Argentine composer Maximo Diego Pujol, Roberto di Marino, and Atanas Ou...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 63
21-31 Bach, Ravel, Sor, Interview: Baylor Medical Musician Tony Arant
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Tony Arant, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach/Gounod, Bach, Ravel, and Sor, and a 2020 interview with Tony Arant, music pra...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 64
21-30 Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Albeniz Arvo Part, Dr Robert Fine Interview
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Dr. Robert Fine, MD, Credit: Baylor University Medical Center
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Arvo Part, Albeniz, and Egberto Gismonti, and a 2020 interview w...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 62
Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits with its five-layer sunshield fully deployed during testing at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California., Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Host Mat Kaplan visits the James Webb Space Telescope in California to see the observatory before it launches and speak with project leaders.

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chemical Space, Credit: Naomi Johnson and Lee Cronin
University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin believes he and his collaborators have found a way to recognize life as we know it and as we don’t know it.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
The Pearly Clouds of Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or "mother of pearl," clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon discusses the beautiful clouds on Mars imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a large asteroid crashing toward Earth., Credit: Getty Images
Planetary Society grants have enabled amateur astronomers to discover and track asteroids that cross Earth’s path. We’ll meet two of them.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Sarah Nelson Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that climate change impacts water quality and foodwebs? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1