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Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The Red Planet beckons., Credit: NASA

Mat Kaplan helped host the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C., where much of the community that is working to get us to Mars gathered.

Bought by KUT, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more

Added: Jun 07, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 12

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Added: May 29, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise

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

We were there when the spacecraft ended 13 years of exploration and revelation at Saturn.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KUT, KIYU-FM and more

Added: May 25, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 15

Today Antarctica, tomorrow Europa: Britney Schmidt explores under the ice

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Astronomer and planetary scientist Britney Schmidt braves the Antarctic cold to prepare us for exploring ice worlds., Credit: Britney Schmidt

Britney Schmidt is preparing us for the day when a submarine will slip into the seas of an ocean world like Europa to search for life.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WFHB, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KWMR and more

Added: May 17, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 14

Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Perseverance is joined by Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, in Jezero crater., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The Mars 2020 rover has rolled into an ancient river delta on the Red Planet. Will we find evidence of past life there?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KVSC and more

Added: May 10, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Mat Kaplan talked with Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton with the spacecraft beside them in this JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan

Suit up for a clean room encounter with the Psyche spacecraft that will soon launch toward the asteroid belt.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more

Added: May 04, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 12

The End of Astronauts?

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Will humans go beyond low Earth-orbit to explore destinations like Mars first-hand? Or will we leave this to robots?, Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech

Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and science writer Don Goldsmith question the value of putting astronauts in harm’s way at great expense in ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more

Added: Apr 26, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

Yuri’s Night: Join the party!

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor greets the 2022 Yuri's Night audience., Credit: Mat Kaplan

Thousands celebrated the 51st anniversary of the first human voyage into space. We’ll take you to the Los Angeles party under the Space Shuttle End...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Apr 19, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 11

Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Fred Haise takes us on board the mission that almost didn’t make it home from the Moon.

Bought by WFHB, WJCU, KIYU-FM, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR and more

Added: Apr 12, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL NEPTUNE MOSAIC WITH GREAT DARK SPOT This mosaic is composed of approximately 20 images taken through green or clear filters about 2 to 3 days prior to Voyager 2's closest approach. It has been colorized with lower-resolution data ta, Credit: NASA / JPL / Björn Jónsson

Leaders of the Neptune Odyssey study for the next planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey share their team’s exciting approach for an ice...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more

Added: Apr 06, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: This is IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer Principal Investigator, a new and unique X-ray space telescope., Credit: NASA/MSFC

X-ray astronomy is vital to solving some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Martin Weisskopf’s brand new space telescope has joined the effort.

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Mar 30, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 11

Who has received the first STEP grants?

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is used by Jean-Luc Margot to listen for technosignatures of extraterrestrial intelligence., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory

The Planetary Society’s new Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program will let citizens join the search for ET and enable...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Mar 16, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 12

Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: This image, from the Context Camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows chloride deposits within a channel in Bosporus Planum, Mars. For scale, the largest impact crater in the scene is 1.5 kilometers (about 1 mile) across., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems

Water may have flowed on Mars for a billion more years than was previously thought, giving possible life an extra billion years to thrive.

Bought by WFHB, KUT, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more

Added: Mar 08, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist concept of the TESS spacecraft in position to search for distant worlds., Credit: NASA

MIT’s Michelle Kunimoto heads the TESS Faint Star Search that has revealed over 1,600 of the more than 5,000 TESS-discovered exoplanet candidates i...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more

Added: Mar 02, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 12

Astrobiologist David Grinspoon on life, the universe and everything

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: This map of the surface of Venus was created from observations accumulated during more than a decade of radar imaging of the planet. Observations made by NASA's Magellan spacecraft between 1990 and 1994 form the base of the image., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

Astrobiologist and author David Grinspoon shares his thoughts about the search for life, where we might find it and how planetary science works.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more

Added: Feb 22, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 10

Saving the world one telescope at a time: The Shoemaker NEO grant winners

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Višnjan Observatory in Croatia is one of eight recipients of Gene Shoemaker near-Earth object grants from the Planetary Society., Credit: Višnjan Observatory

Meet one of the just-announced recipients of Planetary Society Gene Shoemaker NEO grants. They search the skies for asteroids and comets that could...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WJCU and more

Added: Feb 15, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 11

The weather on brown dwarfs, and worlds on the eve of destruction

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf, featuring the cloudy atmosphere of a planet and the residual light of an almost-star., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL

Johanna Vos watches the weather on brown dwarf worlds while her colleague, Sam Grunblatt, finds giant planets spiraling toward their doom.

Bought by KVSC, WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, WJCU and more

Added: Feb 08, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 14

Constant Wonder - Cancer Survivorship, The Ice Bucket Challenge

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Topic 1: Cancer survivors unite, not to cure the disease, but to destroy myths that surround it and to improve life for survivors. Topic 2: The 201...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Added: Feb 08, 2022
Length: 52:50
Purchases: 1

Nobel laureate John Mather: The promise of the James Webb Space Telescope

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope in space., Credit: NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

JWST senior project scientist John Mather has been looking forward to the new space telescope’s first light for more than 30 years. He joins us wit...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WMUU-LP, WJCU, KWMR and more

Added: Feb 02, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 11

A world of space geysers and what lies beneath

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: A true-color view of Enceladus' southern plumes. , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Kevin M. Gill

New research shows that the giant plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus may not be coming from the warm ocean deep below the icy surface.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Jan 26, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

Curiosity rolls on: Mars Science Laboratory project scientist Ashwin Vasavada

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: A Picture Postcard From Curiosity's Navcams: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day; blue, orange, and green color was added to a combination of both panoramas for an , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Curiosity rover’s lead researcher reviews the latest findings and images from Mars’ Gale Crater.

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP and more

Added: Jan 19, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 10

We have touched the Sun: The Parker Solar Probe’s triumph

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist’s impression of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Alfvén critical surface, which marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. Parker Solar Probe’s crossing into this zone in April 2021 means the spacecraft has “touche, Credit: NASA/Johns Hop

A spacecraft has penetrated the Sun’s corona for the first time, revealing unprecedented data and capturing a mind-blowing video.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR and more

Added: Jan 11, 2022
Length: 28:50
Purchases: 13

Help with Unvaccinated Adult Daughter & Holding Journalists Accountable

From: Chuck Wolfe

Norm, like many others, is struggling with how to relate to his adult daughter who refuses vaccination. Bob has an idea for how to stop, or at leas...

Added: Jan 10, 2022
Length: 39:38

Kristina Wong with Rebecca Solnit: The Power of Art and Aunties

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

“Had the government stepped in and done its job, had they not advocated against vaccines and mask mandates, we wouldn't have been frantically gathe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE