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Tru Earth CEO Brad Liski: Detergent Insurgent
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brad Liski
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mars Beckons: The 2021 Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Highlights of the annual gathering of leaders and experts who are building toward humans walking on the Red Planet.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
The Wonderful: a new documentary about the International Space Station
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronaut Cady Coleman, ISS-27 flight engineer, looks over two of four flutes brought with her to the International Space Station in her small allotment of personal items. She is in the Cupola., Credit: NASA
Director Clare Lewins and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman discuss the new documentary “The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station.”

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
The Case for a Return to Enceladus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of the late Cassini spacecraft approaching the giant water plumes emanating from the icy surface of Enceladus., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Flying a spacecraft through geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might reveal the building blocks of life or even life itself.

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The ESCAPADE Mars mission will consist of two identical satellites — “Blue” and “Gold” — that will study how the planet’s ionosphere and magnetic field interact., Credit: Rocket Lab
Can NASA send robotic explorers to Mars for a tiny fraction of what most missions cost?

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured the infrared, green, and blue-light images used to make pictures of the Martian south pole., Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford / Edited by The Planetary Society
New research indicates that what appeared to be liquid water hiding under Mars’ polar ice may actually be a form of clay.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: We are on the cusp of exploring what may be the best place in our solar system to look for life beyond Earth. That place is Jupiter’s moon Europa., Credit: NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Mission system manager Al Cangahuala says the robotic explorer of Jupiter’s ocean moon is making steady progress toward a 2024 launch.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Cassini, Voyager and beyond with Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Cassini spacecraft flies through the plumes emanating from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This still image is from a computer-animated film that highligts the Cassini-Huygens mission accomplishments., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Cassini mission project scientist returns with new science from ocean moon Enceladus and anniversaries to celebrate with the Voyager mission.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
How Perseverance Drives Itself Around Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Perseverance rover looks back over the tracks is has laid across Jezero Crater on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Perseverance rover’s chief robotics engineer takes us for a spin across Mars.

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Alan Stern Says It’s Time for Suborbital Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in its payload configuration, carrying science experiments into a microgravity environment., Credit: Virgin Galactic
Planetary scientist and New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says great science will ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Orig...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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
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
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
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
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
Scott Lerner: Hydrogen Vehicle Update
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Lerner
Back in February of 2013 when we spoke to hydrogen vehicle expert Robert Boyd, the mass market appeal of hydrogen cars seemed somewhat limited to s...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Malavika Vyawahare: Commercial Tuna Pirates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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When we hear the term “resource curse,” it usually refers to the exploitation of countries with rich stores of natural resources like fossil fuels ...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Within Our Grasp: Sharman Apt Russell on Childhood Malnutrition
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sharman Russell
As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Sharman Apt Russ...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00