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Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft races toward its impact on asteroid Dimorphos in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is set for Sept. 26. We’ll get a preview of this historic smackdown from the mission’s c...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for September 18, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Car That Captures Carbon As It Drives. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 5
A Space Coast Conversation with European Space Agency Leader Josef Aschbacher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An Artemis astronaut collects a promising rock on the Moon., Credit: NASA
Host Mat Kaplan spends a few minutes talking with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, at the first attempt to launch A...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for September 11, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Sea Creature That Lives Forever. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 6
711-First One(497)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: HST-Galaxies, Credit: NASA
Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sun rises on the morning of August 29, 2022 at the Kennedy Space Center as the countdown continues toward launch of Artemis 1., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues in Florida for the first attempt to launch the Space Launch System rocket on a mission to the Moon.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
This Week in Water for September 4, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Powering Your Car with a Lobster. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 5
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet., Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s a party for Voyager and the team of scientists, engineers and others who have followed it across our solar system. Then we’ll visit with Ann D...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
This Week in Water for August 28, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Turning Wind Turbines into Gummy Bears. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 6
709-Catching Asteroids(495)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Chariklo, Credit: NASA
It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
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
Getting precious Mars rocks into Earthbound labs is an unprecedented challenge. We’ll hear how a lander, a rocket, a big solar-powered transfer veh...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
This Week in Water for August 21, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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This “Lightning” Could Power the Grid. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 6
708-Guard Down(494)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth, Credit: NASA
In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A cos...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This false color radar image allows us to see through Venus' thick clouds to the broiling surface below., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Delightful astronomer Jane Greaves is back with the latest evidence for phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
This Week in Water for August 14, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Too Little Water in California? How About Too Much. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 7
707-Ringed Dynamo(493)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Saturn, Credit: NASA
Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 08/09/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: For some people, the BA.5 situation's looking... more manageable than expected? And also, what we maybe shouldn't have said ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosetta and the Philae lander approach comet Chury., Credit: ESA
Scientists have found a menagerie of complex organic compounds on the comet visited by the Rosetta spacecraft that connect it with the birth of our...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
This Week in Water for August 7, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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To Make This Battery Work, Just Add Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, WYAP, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 4
706-Wonders to Behold(492)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: M107, Credit: HST-NASA
From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity rover captured the images used to create this mosaic of Martian clouds over Mont Mercou on 19 March 2021., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Scientists need your help identifying clouds high above the surface of the red planet. The goal is figuring out where Mars’ water went.

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May., Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laurie Leshin has just become the tenth director of JPL and the first woman to run the fabled center for space science and robotic exploration.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
This Week in Water for July 24, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Going Outside…How Hot Is Too Hot? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, WYAP, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5

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