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Solar Cruiser: A Giant Sail Prepares for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Solar Cruiser sail approaching the Sun, though it won't actually get nearly this close., Credit: NASA
NASA has given the green light to Principal Investigator Les Johnson and his team for construction of a solar sail that dwarfs all that have come b...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley are all smiles after safely returning to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on 2 August 2020. The mission, Demo-2, was the first crewed flight of NASA's Commercial Crew program., Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
In spite of everything, 2020 was a good year for space exploration according to five of The Planetary Society’s experts.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Might Walk on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Caption: NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson in the International Space Station cupola during one of her space shuttle missions., Credit: NASA
18 astronauts on the Artemis Team have a shot at walking on the Moon, and Stephanie Wilson is one of them.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the Perseverance rover examining an outcrop on Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere will be essential if humans are ever to visit and work on the Red Planet, and the MOXIE experiment will s...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Welcoming a New Leader, and China’s Audacious Moon Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: China's Chang'e-5 lunar lander makes an impression on the Moon., Credit: PRC
Bill Nye helps us welcome the Planetary Society’s new president who also leads a new Moon mission, while China’s lunar sample return spacecraft is ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Observatory Director Francisco Córdova on the Devastating Loss of Arecibo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The great radio telescope at Arecibo in better days., Credit: NSF/UCF
Host Mat Kaplan talked with the Arecibo Observatory director just hours before the giant radio telescope came crashing down.

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
More Moon Water and an Update from Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water., Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter
Astronomer Jane Greaves returns with an update on the phosphine gas floating above Venus, before Casey Honnibal takes us through her team’s discove...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Revealing Mars From Above, and Crew Dragon is Go!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these sand ripples and the large dune (at center) on Feb. 9, 2009. Color has been added to make textures easier to see., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Two pioneering Mars orbiters are still doing great work above the Red Planet, while the first operational Crew Dragon spaceship has delivered four ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
A Rogue World Wanders as PlanetVac Heads for the Moon and Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet., Credit: Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw
A distant, lonely planet has been discovered as it wanders the galaxy, while Bill Nye helps us celebrate selection of a radically-simple sample col...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist impression of TransAstra spacecraft., Credit: TransAstra Corporation
Joel Sercel believes we are entering an era in which asteroid mining and other commercial development of space are imminent, but he’s concerned abo...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Deep Dive into Asteroid Bennu With Dante Lauretta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: TOUCHDOWN ON ASTEROID BENNU! Rocks fly off asteroid Bennu after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched the surface to collect a sample on 20 October 2020. The sample head touched Bennu's surface for 6 seconds while a bottle of nitrogen gas stirred rocks and, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The leader of the OSIRIS REx asteroid sample return mission shares more details of last week’s encounter in an exclusive interview, while we also l...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been dissuaded from voting. We take a look at how...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
We Have Sampled an Asteroid! And the Search for Life Above Venus
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: That's asteroid Bennu on the left. It's actually far smaller than Venus, revealed on the right by radar., Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appears to have collected its first sample from asteroid Bennu, while a team led by Jane Greaves has discovered what coul...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Protectors of Earth! (and Other Worlds)
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this image taken on May 20, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center, engineers and technicians insert 39 sample tubes into the belly of the Perseverance Mars rover. Each tube is sheathed in a gold-colored cylindrical enclosure to protect it from contamination, Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
NASA’s planetary protection officer joined Mat Kaplan’s Humans to Mars summit panel for a great conversation about protecting worlds throughout the...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Exploring the Cosmos With Heidi Hammel and AURA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist's impression of the fully-deployed James Webb Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2021., Credit: NASA
Astronomer and planetary scientist Heidi Hammel’s AURA shines bright across our solar system and beyond.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
A Fond Farewell: Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla in the JPL clean room as Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, was being readied for launch., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Planetary Society Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla makes a big announcement, and share stories from her long history with the organization.

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Have We Found Evidence of Life on Venus?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's impression of Venus, with an inset showing a representation of the phosphine molecules detected in the high cloud decks., Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech
It could be a profound and historic discovery made on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
A Planetary Mystery is Solved
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials., Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Former Dawn mission director Marc Rayman of JPL reveals the secrets of the bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres, and we celebrate his 10 years as Pla...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Columbia River Valley from the Oregon Shore towards Washington, Credit: Chris Light, Wikimedia Commons
Water is critical to maintaining the balance of life. Some corporations claim ownership of fresh water sources to bottle and sell for profit. Other...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Sirens of Mars Call to Us
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A mosaic of 102 Viking orbiter images of Mars, showing a hemisphere of the planet centered on the immense Valles Marineris canyon system. Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey. , Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Georgetown University planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson chronicles the long history of our fascination with Mars and the possibility of lif...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Katie Mack and The End of Everything
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe created from nine years of WMAP data. The image reveals 13.77 billion year old temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies., Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
How will the universe end? That’s the question explored by cosmologist Katie Mack in her very entertaining new book.

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Make Room! Worlds May Crowd Some Habitable Zones
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jupiter's south pole, captured by the Juno orbiter., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
New research reveals why Earth is on its own in this solar system’s habitable zone where liquid surface water flows, but the same isn’t true across...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Another Ray Gun Heads for Mars. We Hear It Working.
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The two parts of the SuperCam instrument are shown mounted on an optical bench. The units are connected by electronic cables and an optical fiber., Credit: Los Alamos National Lab
SuperCam principal investigator Roger Wiens shares how his new and improved laser-based spectrometer will help look for past life in Jezero Crater,...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10