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Planetary Radio Live: Near Earth Objects—The Killer Asteroid Threat
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Comet 67P compared to Los Angeles
Leaders of the quest to find, understand and protect ourselves from the asteroids and comets called Near Earth Objects gathered with host Mat Kapla...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Spinoffs! Sharing NASA Technology
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Spinoff 2016 Book, Credit: NASA
In its nearly five decades, NASA has created or improved thousands of technologies, processes and innovations. Dan Lockney is in charge of making ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Sailing the Canyons of Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini radar image of flooded canyons on Titan, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Steep canyons on Saturn's moon Titan are filled with liquid methane. That's the discovery just announced by an international team of Cassini scient...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Planetary Radio Live-New Horizons Phones Home From Pluto!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan and guests at KPCC waiting for New Horizons to phone home from Pluto., Credit: Southern California Public Radio
Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Jim Bell Welcomes "The Interstellar Age"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Bell's new book chronicles the Voyager mission to the outer solar system and beyond., Credit: Dutton Publishing
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” He talks with Mat Kaplan abo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Piece image
MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • 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...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Taxidermy
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 2
Wonderous Universe -- Groks Science Show 2011-07-27
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Brian Cox discussed the wonders of the universe.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 27:48
  • Purchases: 3