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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
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Moon Mission 3D: A New Perspective on the Space Race, Credit: MIT Press
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astroph...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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
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
Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Conversation in Huntsville, Alabama
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Saturn V moon rocket on display inside the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recorded this week at the US Space and Rocket Center...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
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
Dark Energy’s Co-Discoverer and the Leader of Chinese Space Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This large scale simulation of galaxies represents the large-scale light distribution in the Universe., Credit: Max Planck Institute
It has been 20 years since we learned the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to the mysterious force called dark energy. Saul Perlmutter...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Diving Into That Lake on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This beautiful image of Mars’ south pole was captured by the Mars Express orbiter in 2015. Now there’s good evidence for liquid water 1.5 kilometers below it., Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Bill Dunford
Our world was rocked by last week’s announcement of good radar evidence for a liquid water “lake” under the Red Planet’s south pole. Senior Edito...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Hayabusa2 Reaches a Dark Diamond in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, Credit: JAXA
Japan’s Hayabusa2 is just 6 kilometers from asteroid Ryugu as it prepares to snatch samples of the space rock for return to Earth. Mission Project...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
An African Observatory Hunts Killer Asteroids
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A view of Oukaïmeden Observatory, with the Morocco Oukaïmeden Sky Survey (MOSS) dome in the foreground., Credit: Morocco Oukaïmeden Sky Survey
One of the Planetary Society’s 2018 Shoemaker Near-Earth Object grants has gone to the astronomers searching the sky from a mountaintop in the Nort...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Something Old and Something New: Exciting Research on the International Space Station
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst learns how to use a sextant in the ISS cupola., Credit: NASA
Sextants have helped sailors find their way across oceans for centuries. Now one is onboard the International Space Station so that astronauts can ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Dwarf Planet Ceres Thrills as a Dying Visitor Closes In
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This simulated perspective view shows Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, which contains the brightest area on Ceres. This region has been the subject of intense interest since Dawn's approach to th, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Ceres is the queen of the asteroid belt. Her first Earthly visitor is nearing its last days in spectacular style. Dawn Mission Director and Chief...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
It’s Asteroid Week with NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of asteroid passing Earth, Credit: ESA / P.Carril
The dinosaurs regret their lack of a space program. 200 million years later, humans are gearing up to defend themselves from a species-ending rock...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Kathryn Sullivan and More at the International Space Development Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Kathryn Sullivan receives the National Space Society’s Space Pioneer Award, Credit: National Space Society
Freeman Dyson wasn’t the only space star at the ISDC. Mat talks with former astronaut and NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan and leaders of the C...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation with Freeman Dyson
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Freeman Dyson speaks at the 2018 International Space Development Conference after receiving the National Space Society’s Heinlein Award., Credit: National Space Society
There’s so much more to Freeman Dyson than the Dyson Sphere. The mathematician, scientist and author is one of the greatest and most original mind...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
It’s Rocket Science: Testing PlanetVac in the Mojave Desert
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Masten Space Systems’ Xodiac in flight with PlanetVac as one of its feet, Credit: Bruce Betts
Join Mat Kaplan in California’s Mojave Desert for special coverage of not one but two rocket flights and a real world test of PlanetVac, the innova...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Biohybrid Robot
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Piece image
Merging living muscle with synthetic bones.

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Sacred Place: The National Air and Space Museum with Ellen Stofan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and National Air & Space Museum Director Ellen Stofan, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan has just become Director of the most popular museum in the United States. The NASM protects and shares the greate...

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  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Chasing New Horizons to Pluto with Alan Stern
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New Horizons PI Alan Stern, Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan and astrobiologist/science communicator David Grinspoon , Credit: Alan Stern
The New Horizons mission was a triumph, revealing Pluto as an utterly unique and beautiful world. The entire, surprisingly dramatic tale has now b...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7