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In the Lab with Planetary Scientist Sarah Hörst
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarah Hörst demonstrates the glove box in her Johns Hopkins University planetary science lab., Credit: Mat Kaplan
A conversation with Johns Hopkins University planetary scientist Sarah Hörst is capped by a tour of her fascinating lab. That’s where Sarah and her...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Boosters, Breakthroughs and Budgets: Canada and the US Look Toward Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol Building as Planetary Society members wrap up their work advocating for space. The 2019 Day of Action saw 100 members from 25 states visit offices throughout Congress in support of space science and exploration., Credit: Antonio Peronace for The Planetary Society
The last few days have seen developments that will shape the space exploration plans of Canada and the USA. The Planetary Society’s Kate Howells is...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
China on the Final Frontier
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An image of the Chang'e-4 lander from the Yutu-2 rover, during the mission's first lunar day., Credit: CLEP/CNSA
With missions like Chang’e 4 on the far side of the Moon, China has firmly established itself as a leader in space exploration. Space journalist An...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
An Israeli Lander Launches Toward the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: SpaceIL’s Beresheet lunar lander, Credit: SpaceIL
Non-profit SpaceIL’s Beresheet is on its way to the Moon. Only China, the Soviet Union and the United States have safely landed there before. Host...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Watching the Births of Solar Systems
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: One of the twenty disks that comprise ALMA's highest resolution survey of nearby protoplanetary disks. This image shows the millimeter-wavelength light emitted by the dust in the disk, giving astronomers a clearer understanding of the similarities and di, Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Andrews et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
Radio telescopes are delivering stunning images that, in some cases, current optical telescopes can’t equal. Witness the 20 beautiful protoplanetar...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The DART Mission: Learning How to Swat Dangerous Asteroids
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft approaches Didymos A and B., Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Why did the dinosaurs die? Because they didn’t have a space program! The upcoming DART mission will test our best thinking about how we may someday...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: CALCIUM CARBONATE SPIRE IN THE LOST CITY HYDROTHERMAL FIELD, Credit: IFE / URI-IAO / UW / Lost City Science Party / NOAA / OAR / OER
Astrobiology is the discipline that explores the origin of life in the universe, and whether life exists anywhere other than Earth. It’s an increas...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Asteroid Bennu’s Visitor From Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). The image was obtained at a 50° phase angle between the spacecraft, asteroid and the Sun, and in it, Be, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Spacecraft OSIRIS REx is now orbiting a 260-meter asteroid named Bennu. Principal investigator Dante Lauretta returns to tell us what has already ...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Flying the Skies of Saturn’s Moon Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dragonfly soars above Saturn's moon Titan on its way to a new science site in this artist's impression., Credit: JHUAPL
Imagine soaring over what may be the solar system’s most Earth-like world, if you ignore the chill. If funded, the nuclear electric-powered Dragonf...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
New Horizons Flyby: Join the Celebration!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Millions around the world watched as the New Horizons spacecraft encounters the most distant object ever visited., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us at the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland for the New Horizons encounter with the most distant object ever visited. You’ll meet mission leader...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
A Mission to Earth: OSIRIS-REx
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the OSIRIS REx spacecraft passing Earth on its way to asteroid Bennu., Credit: NASA/GSFC/UA
Why do so many spacecraft that are headed across our solar system turn their instruments back to Earth during flybys? OSIRIS-REx was no exception....

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Countdown to Ultima: Alan Stern and New Horizons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, target for the New Horizons flyby, is seen here in an artist's concept., Credit: NASA/SwRI
The New Horizons spacecraft will reach faraway Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 in the first minutes of 2019. Will the body informally known as Ultima...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Conversation With Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: • Former NASA Administrator Charles “Charlie” Bolden asks a question at the NSS Space Settlement Summit., Credit: Mat Kaplan
He led NASA for eight years, but not till he had flown on four Space Shuttle missions and enjoyed a long military career. Charlie Bolden talks with...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Last Week, Mars. This week, An Asteroid Called Bennu.
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Bennu in an image captured by OSIRIS REx at its arrival., Credit: NASA/University of Arizona
The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after traveling through deep space for a year and a ha...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Great Day for Space Explorers: The Landing of InSight
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: InSight Launch Party at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. L to R: Bruce Betts, Troy Hudson, Mat Kaplan and Jennifer Jackson, Credit: Andrew Pauly, The Planetary Society
Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party. You’ll meet Mat Kaplan’s onstage experts and check in wi...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
We Know Where the 2020 Rover Will Look for Martian Life
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The landing site of Mars 2020 will be in Jezero crater, on the northwest edge of the basin. , Credit: NASA / MIT / Goudge et al 2017
NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero crater, where it will begin the search for the si...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Celebrating Kepler
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of Kepler spacecraft observing a vast, oil-painted universe., Credit: NASA / Wendy Stenzel / Daniel Rutter
The Kepler mission has ended. Listen to highlights of the October 30th media briefing that included the father of the fantastically successful pla...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Sc...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Back to Saturn for Brand New Cassini Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Our most frequent guest returns with exciting, just-published research enabled by the 20-year mission’s enormous success. Linda Spilker has served ...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Celebrating Astronomy Day with the Giant Magellan Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Giant Magellan Telescope at sunset, Credit: GMTO
Happy Astronomy Day, October 13, 2018! We salute humankind’s long history of stargazing by checking in on what will be our planet’s largest telesc...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
John Logsdon and the Dawn of the Space Age
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: America's "Right Stuff" men, the Mercury 7 astronauts., Credit: NASA
The Dean of space policy, John Logsdon, returns with stories and a new book of original documents that shaped the US space program from the birth o...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
SpaceX Builds a Big Falcon Rocket
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of a performance aboard a SpaceX Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS), Credit: SpaceX
A mostly SpaceX episode as the ambitious company provides updated details regarding its huge new rocket and introduces its first astronauts. Mat Ka...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Return to Fiery Mercury With BepiColombo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: BepiColombo approaches Mercury in this artist's concept., Credit: Airbus
Elsa Montagnon is Spacecraft Operations Manager for the European/Japanese mission leaving for our solar system’s innermost planet very soon. She jo...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Big Science and a Big Rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Space Launch System leaves Earth in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA
Mat Kaplan’s Huntsville, Alabama trip wraps up with a tour of the historic and history-making Marshall Space Flight Center. Join him at the control...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Pluto Occults! Join Us on the Mountain
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: At the Lake Henshaw Overlook preparing for the Pluto occultation with an Unistellar eVscope prototype and a large Celestron C14 telescope. From left to right: Martin Costa, Franck Marchis, Joana Oliveira Marques and Mat Kaplan, Credit: Chris Hendren
Pluto passed in front of a star on the evening of August 14. Mat Kaplan joined pro and amateur astronomers on a mountain to observe this rare event...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8