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Universal Harmonies: Sonifying images for science and accessibility
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: “Universal Harmonies” (released on Mar 10, 2023) is an album comprised of sonified observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This collection hopes to make space images more accessible to those with vision loss by allowing them to listen to images r, Credit: Chandra Labs
Kim Arcand from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory joins Planetary Radio to share her team’s new album “Universal Harmonies.”

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
775: Journeys Through Gender / 776: Hope: How Do You Make It?, 3/11/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "Hop...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Constant Wonder - A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton's Lost Ship
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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He spearheaded the recent expedition to locate the final resting place of Ernest Shackleton's famous ship Endurance. Mensun Bound relates the wonde...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Looking back on Voyager’s 45th Anniversary
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With the full size Voyager spacecraft mockup behind them in JPL's von Karman Auditorium, host Mat Kaplan is joined by Project Manager Suzanne Dodd, NASA Heliophysics Divison leader Nicola Fox, and Voyager Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker., Credit: Mat Kaplan/The Planetary Society
Planetary Radio’s creator Mat Kaplan guest hosts for this look back at the Jet Propulsion Lab’s celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Voyager ...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Canadian Lunar Rover with Peter Visscher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Canada's lunar rover will head for the Moon's south polar region as soon as 2026. , Credit: Canadensys Aerospace
Director of Canadensys West Peter Visscher fills us in on the upcoming Canadian lunar rover. Visscher has been working on the rover for years.

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Experiencing Awe in Tragedy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A preeminent researcher tells about his personal experiences of wonder. Feelings of awe beneath the desert stars, and endless wonders he feels are ...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Martian rock collecting: From meteorites to Mars Sample Return
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-CalTech
Meenakshi Wadhwa, principal scientist for Mars Sample Return at NASA JPL, updates us on the missions that will bring bits of the red planet back to...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
2023 Spring Fundraiser: Unconventional Healing / Predicting Success
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:23:32
  • Purchases: 4
Are we alone? The search for alien technosignatures
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Data from the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is analyzed by volunteers in the new Are We Alone in the Universe project., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory
A new volunteer SETI science project to search for alien technosignatures has launched! Two of its creators tell you how to sign up.

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Infrasound
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
More on Mars’ Watery History
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This color image of the Martian surface in the Chryse area was taken by Viking Lander 1, looking southwest, about 15 minutes before sunset., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars expert Tanya Harrison shares the details on some of the newest discoveries about Mars’ history, including potential megatsunamis and the disco...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
765: Shapeshifting / 766: Plants As People, 2/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
JWST confirms its first exoplanet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An illustration of LHS 475 b based on our current understanding of the planet from JWST spectroscopy., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)
We celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's first confirmed exoplanet discovery this week on Planetary Radio. Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, one of the lea...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Juno Journeys to Jupiter’s Moons
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An image of Ganymede obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's icy moon., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Dive into the latest discoveries about Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, with Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Juno mis...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Celebrating NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artemis 1 begins its successful lunar mission.
Jeremy Graeber, the assistant launch director at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, joins Planetary Radio to recount his experience on the night of A...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarah Al-Ahmed, the new host of Planetary Radio, shaking hands with Mat, creator and former host of the show after their last in-person recording on Dec. 22, 2022., Credit: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society
New host Sarah Al-Ahmed bids a fond farewell to Mat Kaplan, Planetary Radio’s former host, in a special interview as Mat shares stories from his tw...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Planetary Society All-Stars Review the Year in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula that were previously obscured., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
For his last episode as host, Mat Kaplan welcomes many of his Planetary Society colleagues for a review of a spectacular year of space exploration.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
753: When Mountains Are Gods / 754: The Sound Of Silence, 12/24/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Artemis 1 Orion capsule comes home
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on board the USS Portland after its historic journey around the Moon., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan greets the Orion capsule that has just returned from the Moon.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Good Night Oppy! Hello Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A Mars Exploration Rover crosses the Red Planet in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Bill Nye and Planetary Society members join Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity scientists at a screening of the excellent new documentary about the...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
747: Forged By Hand / 748: If Your Clothes Could Talk, 12/3/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio host and his Mirror Lab tour guide Buell Jannuzi with one of the seven huge mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. , Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for a tour of the University of Arizona’s Mirror Lab where they use a giant, spinning oven filled with molten glass to create the primary m...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Linda Spilker and Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan check out the geysers emanating from a model of Saturn's moon Enceladus at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker has now taken on the same job for the Voyager Interstellar Mission.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12