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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
This Week in Water for July 25, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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It Could Spell Trouble When This Stream Gets Wavy. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KGNU Community Radio, KKFI, and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 5
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
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
This Week in Water for July 11, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Toilet That Pays People to Use It. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 5
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
This Week in Water for July 4, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Could There Be a Mask Mandate...for Cows? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 5
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
This Week in Water for June 20, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Water-Guzzling Data Centers Are Being Built in the Arizona Desert. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2021
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
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
Mighty Jupiter and the Juno Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen at high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter’s disk. Image, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The Juno mission will continue its exploration of Jupiter till 2025, thanks to a four-year extension granted by NASA. Principal investigator Scott ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Mandela Effect: Reality shift, alternative timelines or New Earth alien artificial simulation?
From: Ray Samuels
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Mandela Effect: Reality shift, alternative timelines or New Earth alien artificial simulation?

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:12:41
The New Great Space Observatories
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The New Great Observatories coalition has brought together the logos for the four projects proposed in the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey., Credit: The New Great Observatories Coalition
Astrophysicist Grant Tremblay describes how four proposed space telescopes could reveal our solar system and the universe as never before.

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
643-Space Vehicles
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: SpaceX Starship, Credit: SpaceX
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.

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  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Women in AI Are Talking
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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We sit down with three female founders who are running AI startups -- and they tell us exactly what it's like to be a woman in artificial intellige...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 20:57
Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can’t get COVID or denying the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-SUPAERO
The leader of the Mars Helicopter test mission celebrates her team’s success and explores the daunting challenges they overcame.

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
640-Rocks or Rockets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a hu...

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  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
A Conversation with Kyoto Prize Recipient James Gunn
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sloan Foundation 2.5 meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, Credit: The Sloan Foundation
Jim Gunn co-created and led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that has revealed the universe as never before.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Is ‘Oumuamua a Piece of a Pluto-Like Planet? And Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's impression of interstellar object 'Oumuamua, Credit: William Hartmann
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter makes a successful first flight on the Red Planet, while two researchers offer new insights on the first interstel...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10