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A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cover of Lori Garver's great new book., Credit: Diversion Books
Lori Garver went up against powerful forces inside and outside NASA to create the hugely successful commercial cargo and crew programs.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for July 3, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Way to Combat Climate Change That the Supreme Court Can't Stop. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 3
Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Day serves as a reminder of the threat posed to our planet by near-Earth objects, and the campaign to protect ourselves from them., Credit: Asteroid Day Foundation
A co-founder of the annual, worldwide event, and the leader of the European Space Agency’s planetary defense program mark the 114th anniversary of ...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
John Fleck: Drought Dilemmas and the Colorado River
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This image taken by The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft on Feb. 27, 2021 shows the Red Sea, Nile River, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and surrounding areas. North is approximately at top right., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate the third anniversary of LightSail 2’s launch with Bill Nye and other leaders of The Planetary Society.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KCNP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
This Week in Water for June 19, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Feds Give States Just 60 Days to Act. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KKFI, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 4
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Promise of Psychedelic Therapy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is the great new memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Credit: William Morrow
Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young W...

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for June 12, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Can We ‘Worm’ Our Way Out of Our Plastic Pollution Problem? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Red Planet beckons., Credit: NASA
Mat Kaplan helped host the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C., where much of the community that is working to get us to Mars gathered.

Bought by KUT, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for June 5, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Congress Appears 'Pumped' to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 6
697-Double Trouble(483)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Binary Asteroid, Credit: ESA
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Raven Radio, KGLP, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Planetary Radio Live in London: The Moons Symphony
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Under the baton of Marin Alsop, the London Symphony orchestra records The Moons Symphony in its grand St. Luke's facility., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for Planetary Radio Live at Imperial College London!

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KIYU-FM, WFHB, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for May 29, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Golfers Can “Eat Their Greens.” That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 5
696-Botswana Fragment(482)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's grand finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We were there when the spacecraft ended 13 years of exploration and revelation at Saturn.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KUT, KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
This Week in Water for May 22, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Ships that Run on Ocean Plastic. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 6
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
William Moomaw: Climate Change Assessments
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Today Antarctica, tomorrow Europa: Britney Schmidt explores under the ice
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Astronomer and planetary scientist Britney Schmidt braves the Antarctic cold to prepare us for exploring ice worlds., Credit: Britney Schmidt
Britney Schmidt is preparing us for the day when a submarine will slip into the seas of an ocean world like Europa to search for life.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WFHB, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
694-Comet Catalina(479)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for May 15, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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The Not-So-Sweet Side of Sugar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 4