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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.

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
John Stoehr: Guns And White Power
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
The term “civil liberties” may connote different associations, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. While some connect the term w...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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!

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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.

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
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.

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  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
States Newsroom: A Novel Approach To State-Level News
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Fitzsimon
There are forces in the US that like to selectively bring up “states rights” from time to time – with the impending decision stripping the federal ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Perseverance is joined by Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, in Jezero crater., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The Mars 2020 rover has rolled into an ancient river delta on the Red Planet. Will we find evidence of past life there?

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  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
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
David v. Goliath: Danna Smith + Leo Woodberry v. Big Conservation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Danna Smith
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...

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  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 2: Recall Rubbish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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
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
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
Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings on the Fight For Equal Rights (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Jennings
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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
Jesse Tran: Coffee Waste Sneakers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jesse Tran
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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
Adam Sobel: A Climate Science Midlife Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Sobel
Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe'...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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
Ted Nordhaus: What Are Environmental Protections Protecting?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Andrew Winston: The Case For Doing Business Differently
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Winston
In 1970, the economist Milton Friedman wrote a controversial piece for the New York Times Magazine entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business ...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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