Mat Kaplan
- Username: MatKaplan
- Producer/Host
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Mat Kaplan
A Fond Farewell to Spirit and Opportunity
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From: Mat Kaplan
The Mars Exploration Rover mission was declared complete on February 13, 2019. On the very next day, MER Project Manager John Callas and Deputy Project Scientist Abigail ...
Watching the Births of Solar Systems
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From: Mat Kaplan
Radio telescopes are delivering stunning images that, in some cases, current optical telescopes can’t equal. Witness the 20 beautiful protoplanetary disks imaged by the ...
The DART Mission: Learning How to Swat Dangerous Asteroids
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From: Mat Kaplan
Why did the dinosaurs die? Because they didn’t have a space program! The upcoming DART mission will test our best thinking about how we may someday deflect a Near Earth ...
Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life
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From: Mat Kaplan
Astrobiology is the discipline that explores the origin of life in the universe, and whether life exists anywhere other than Earth. It’s an increasingly exciting field ...
Asteroid Bennu’s Visitor From Earth
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From: Mat Kaplan
Spacecraft OSIRIS REx is now orbiting a 260-meter asteroid named Bennu. Principal investigator Dante Lauretta returns to tell us what has already been learned, and to ...
Flying the Skies of Saturn’s Moon Titan
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From: Mat Kaplan
Imagine soaring over what may be the solar system’s most Earth-like world, if you ignore the chill. If funded, the nuclear electric-powered Dragonfly will do exactly this. ...
New Horizons Flyby: Join the Celebration!
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From: Mat Kaplan
Join us at the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland for the New Horizons encounter with the most distant object ever visited. You’ll meet mission leaders, friends and even a rock ...
A Mission to Earth: OSIRIS-REx
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From: Mat Kaplan
Why do so many spacecraft that are headed across our solar system turn their instruments back to Earth during flybys? OSIRIS-REx was no exception. The answers come from ...
Countdown to Ultima: Alan Stern and New Horizons
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From: Mat Kaplan
The New Horizons spacecraft will reach faraway Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 in the first minutes of 2019. Will the body informally known as Ultima Thule be as mysterious and ...
