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Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Highlights of the annual gathering of leaders and experts who are building toward humans walking on the Red Planet.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
661-Roving Venus (400)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
657-Plant Companionship(407)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson happily displays the progress of the Advanced Astroculture experiment aboard the International Space Station in July 2002., Credit: NASA
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent sci...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
656-Moons of Florence(399)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
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
652-Our Number(314)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the E...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
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
595: Our Time Of Mourning / 596: Should You Delete Facebook?, 6/19/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - The pandemic is waning in many places. But before we go back to normal life, let's not forget to mourn our loss...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
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
Experimental Cosmologist Brian Keating
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom lef, Credit: University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Brian Keating, director of the Simons Observatory that will search for our cosmic origins from a moun...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13