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Getting Humans to Mars with Chris Carberry
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Making Love to Siri: The Seductiveness of Robots
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show “Making Love to Siri,” seeks to understand what is seductive to us about robots. Which question should we ask: Can we make love to S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:33
Jim Bell Welcomes "The Interstellar Age"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jim Bell's new book chronicles the Voyager mission to the outer solar system and beyond., Credit: Dutton Publishing
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” He talks with Mat Kaplan abo...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Recipe for a Small Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of exoplanet Kepler -186f., Credit: Wikipedia
Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Fog Harvester
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: John Lovell checking his fog harvest, Credit: Leila Day
Lovell is a fog harvester. He’s obsessed with the fog, and the water resources that are floating right over our heads. He points at a little white ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
A MESSENGER From Mercury-Principal Investigator Sean Solomon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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MESSENGER is the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission that has been orbiting the innermost planet for more than thr...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
That Water in Your Glass May be Older Than the Sun
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Researchers have theorized that up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun. It likely formed in the cold molecular cloud that spawned our solar system., Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
Ilse Cleeves is lead author of a paper that concludes up to half of our solar system’s water is older than the solar system itself. The implication...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Radio Live! We See Thee Rise: The Canadian Space Program
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: "We See Thee Rise" University of Toronto Convocation Hall, October 1, 2014, Credit: The Planetary Society
We welcomed 1,600 Canadian space enthusiasts to the University of Toronto for our October 1st celebration of Canada in space! Join Mat Kaplan and ...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Radio Live: MAVEN Arrives at Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio Live celebrates MAVEN's arrival at Mars in Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum, Credit: Loren Roberts
The latest guest of the Red Planet arrived in orbit on the evening of September 22, 2014. Planetary Radio Live was watching with fingers crossed in...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
Duct Tape Dragons
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Duct Tape Dragons are a scrappy robotics team made up of disadvantaged youth from the Portland Boys and Girls Club.  They don’t have the resour...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Earth-like planet In this artist's conception, the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet displays a brownish haze - the result of widespread pollution. New research shows that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope potentially could detect certain polluta, Credit: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard’s Henry Lin led work that determined the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by anal...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Problem with Internet Search Engines: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Internet search engines have no way of taking context into consideration. The closest Google has come is to hone the search by user’s zip code, wh...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:37
A technologist's house finds its voice on Twitter
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Tom Coates in his tweeting house., Credit: Liz Pfeffer
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
Neil deGrasse Tyson of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Neil deGrasse Tyson
The host of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey, returns to our show with a behind the scenes look at the spectacular television series. Neil also tells u...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
West Texas Kids Get into GEAR
From: Lana Straub
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Story about GEAR - Get Excited About Robotics

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of "The Cosmos"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New 4th Edition of "The Cosmos", Credit: Cambridge University Press
Astronomers Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko have just published the 4th edition of “The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millenium.” They join us fo...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KSKQ, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Things to Come: Previewing 2014 Solar System Exploration With Emily Lakdawalla
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Evangelist Emily Lakdawalla
24 spacecraft are either busy exploring the solar system or speeding toward an exciting destination. The Planetary Society's Senior Editor takes u...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Teaching Innovation (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Host Joan Kjaer and her guests discuss teaching innovation with a focus on creative and high-impact ways teachers are engaging the minds of Univers...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:06
The AGU Conference: A Big Week for Space Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chang'e 3 Lander on the Moon, Credit: CTV
The annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union revealed lots of science, some of it astounding. Emily Lakdawalla was there with Advocac...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Comet ISON's Spectacular Science Legacy
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Karl Battams, Comet ISON Observer
Maybe it wasn’t “the comet of the century,” but ISON has left a scientific legacy that is beyond compare. That’s according to Karl Battams of NASA’...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, WESM 91.3 FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Celebrating Bruce Murray, The "Admiral of the Solar System"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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The life of explorer and teacher Dr. Bruce Murray was celebrated last November 10th at Caltech. This week we present a few excerpts from the tribu...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Alyssa Rhoden and the Rise of the Europa Underground
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Alyssa Rhoden studies Jupiter’s moon Europa…from a distance. She, many other scientists and millions of space exploration fans around the globe wan...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Two Guys on Your Head: Words and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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The saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is really not as accurate as we would like it to be. Words are a p...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 1
SpaceUp LA Unconference: What would you do with an extra $13 Billion for space?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: 2013 SpaceUp LA, Credit: Mat Kaplan
What would YOU do with $10 Billion for space exploration and development? That’s what Mat Kaplan asked the passionate space enthusiasts at the 201...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Will we be safe when our cars drive themselves?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1