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Heavy Metal: An encounter with the Psyche spacecraft
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan talked with Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton with the spacecraft beside them in this JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Suit up for a clean room encounter with the Psyche spacecraft that will soon launch toward the asteroid belt.

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  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for May 1, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Using Old Face Masks to Cut Carbon. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 7
The End of Astronauts?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Will humans go beyond low Earth-orbit to explore destinations like Mars first-hand? Or will we leave this to robots?, Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and science writer Don Goldsmith question the value of putting astronauts in harm’s way at great expense in ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for April 24, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 6
Yuri’s Night: Join the party!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor greets the 2022 Yuri's Night audience., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Thousands celebrated the 51st anniversary of the first human voyage into space. We’ll take you to the Los Angeles party under the Space Shuttle End...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's concept of what binary asteroid 2017 YE5 might look like. The two objects showed striking differences in radar reflectivity, which could indicate that they have different surface properties., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise's NASA portrait., Credit: NASA
Fred Haise takes us on board the mission that almost didn’t make it home from the Moon.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL NEPTUNE MOSAIC WITH GREAT DARK SPOT This mosaic is composed of approximately 20 images taken through green or clear filters about 2 to 3 days prior to Voyager 2's closest approach. It has been colorized with lower-resolution data ta, Credit: NASA / JPL / Björn Jónsson
Leaders of the Neptune Odyssey study for the next planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey share their team’s exciting approach for an ice...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
X-raying the universe with Martin Weisskopf
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This is IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer Principal Investigator, a new and unique X-ray space telescope., Credit: NASA/MSFC
X-ray astronomy is vital to solving some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Martin Weisskopf’s brand new space telescope has joined the effort.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Margaret Kivelson at JPL with a model of the Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft., Credit: NASA
A fascinating conversation with a space science and policy leader who is still hard at work in her 10th decade.

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Who has received the first STEP grants?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is used by Jean-Luc Margot to listen for technosignatures of extraterrestrial intelligence., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory
The Planetary Society’s new Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program will let citizens join the search for ET and enable...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for March 13, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Kite Energy Might Start to Soar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Water, water everywhere with Bethany Ehlmann
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This image, from the Context Camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows chloride deposits within a channel in Bosporus Planum, Mars. For scale, the largest impact crater in the scene is 1.5 kilometers (about 1 mile) across., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
Water may have flowed on Mars for a billion more years than was previously thought, giving possible life an extra billion years to thrive.

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:18
5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the TESS spacecraft in position to search for distant worlds., Credit: NASA
MIT’s Michelle Kunimoto heads the TESS Faint Star Search that has revealed over 1,600 of the more than 5,000 TESS-discovered exoplanet candidates i...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
683-TESS(460)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon on life, the universe and everything
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This map of the surface of Venus was created from observations accumulated during more than a decade of radar imaging of the planet. Observations made by NASA's Magellan spacecraft between 1990 and 1994 form the base of the image., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Astrobiologist and author David Grinspoon shares his thoughts about the search for life, where we might find it and how planetary science works.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Saving the world one telescope at a time: The Shoemaker NEO grant winners
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Višnjan Observatory in Croatia is one of eight recipients of Gene Shoemaker near-Earth object grants from the Planetary Society., Credit: Višnjan Observatory
Meet one of the just-announced recipients of Planetary Society Gene Shoemaker NEO grants. They search the skies for asteroids and comets that could...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
681-17,000 to Go(455)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more ...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The weather on brown dwarfs, and worlds on the eve of destruction
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf, featuring the cloudy atmosphere of a planet and the residual light of an almost-star., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL
Johanna Vos watches the weather on brown dwarf worlds while her colleague, Sam Grunblatt, finds giant planets spiraling toward their doom.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14