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Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission's Marc Rayman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Image of Ceres and its mysterious “bright spots” taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 13,600 km (8,400 miles) above the surface., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiting Ceres in the asteroid be...

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  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015., Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI
Humankind’s arrival at Pluto is barely two months away. The science and images have already started to flow from New Horizons, according to the mis...

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  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Rob Manning and Getting Down To Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A six-meter Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) is spin tested in a JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Landing on Mars is hard, and the bigger you are, the harder it gets. Rob Manning returns to tell us about one of NASA’s best hopes for getting much...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Robert Bigelow and His Expandable Space Habs
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Towering mock-up of Bigelow Aerospace's Olympus space habitat., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM expandable/inflatable space module will be attached to the International Space Station later this year. Mat travels to the...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
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
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides on LauncherOne and the Return of SpaceShipTwo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Elected officials hear about Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne rocket and WhiteKnightTwo air launch vehicle., Credit: Virgin Galactic
6,000 job-seekers came to the new Long Beach, California home of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket on a recent morning. We sit down with CEO Geo...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
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
Food Sleuth Radio, Gary Wenk Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that everything we eat can affect how we think, feel and act? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgar...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
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
Are you addicted to your cell phone? Consumer behavior expert Dr.James Roberts explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A study just published in the Journal of Behavioral Addiction found that among college students, men spend nearly eight hours a day on their cell p...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 20:15
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
Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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