Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
Giving Venus the Love (and Science) She Deserves
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From: Mat Kaplan
We have so much to learn about Venus, says JPL scientist Sue Smrekar. What we learn will help us understand our own world and Mars. Sue joins us this week to make a great ...
Dark Energy’s Co-Discoverer and the Leader of Chinese Space Science
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 shared the Nobel Prize in ...
Diving Into That Lake on Mars
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 Editor Emily Lakdawalla ...
Hayabusa2 Reaches a Dark Diamond in Space
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 Manager Hitoshi Kuninaka ...
An African Observatory Hunts Killer Asteroids
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 North African nation of ...
Something Old and Something New: Exciting Research on the International Space Station
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From: Mat Kaplan
Sextants have helped sailors find their way across oceans for centuries. Now one is onboard the International Space Station so that astronauts can learn to find their way ...
Dwarf Planet Ceres Thrills as a Dying Visitor Closes In
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 Engineer Marc Rayman ...
It’s Asteroid Week with NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer
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From: Mat Kaplan
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. The many challenges ...
Kathryn Sullivan and More at the International Space Development Conference
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From: Mat Kaplan
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 Cassini mission. Planetary ...
