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Caption: This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-CalTech
Meenakshi Wadhwa, principal scientist for Mars Sample Return at NASA JPL, updates us on the missions that will bring bits of the red planet back to...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KALW, WUFT, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:23:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Data from the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is analyzed by volunteers in the new Are We Alone in the Universe project., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory
A new volunteer SETI science project to search for alien technosignatures has launched! Two of its creators tell you how to sign up.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: This color image of the Martian surface in the Chryse area was taken by Viking Lander 1, looking southwest, about 15 minutes before sunset., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars expert Tanya Harrison shares the details on some of the newest discoveries about Mars’ history, including potential megatsunamis and the disco...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WMUU-LP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: An illustration of LHS 475 b based on our current understanding of the planet from JWST spectroscopy., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)
We celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's first confirmed exoplanet discovery this week on Planetary Radio. Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, one of the lea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KCNP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. How can we travel more e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:02
Caption: An image of Ganymede obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's icy moon., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Dive into the latest discoveries about Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, with Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Juno mis...

Bought by KVSC, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
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Topic 1: Moving to a new country does not mean you have to forget the old one; Topic 2: A life-changing meal. And, identifying the best olive oil.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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Jason Achilles, a musician who partnered with NASA’s JPL to help put one of the first microphones on Mars, shares his journey and the joy of listen...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Artemis 1 begins its successful lunar mission.
Jeremy Graeber, the assistant launch director at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, joins Planetary Radio to recount his experience on the night of A...

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


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Sarah Al-Ahmed, the new host of Planetary Radio, shaking hands with Mat, creator and former host of the show after their last in-person recording on Dec. 22, 2022., Credit: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society
New host Sarah Al-Ahmed bids a fond farewell to Mat Kaplan, Planetary Radio’s former host, in a special interview as Mat shares stories from his tw...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Living With Loneli...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula that were previously obscured., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
For his last episode as host, Mat Kaplan welcomes many of his Planetary Society colleagues for a review of a spectacular year of space exploration.

Bought by KIYU-FM, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KCNP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
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HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on board the USS Portland after its historic journey around the Moon., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan greets the Orion capsule that has just returned from the Moon.

Bought by KIYU-FM, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan with bestselling author Andy Weir and Jet Propulsion Lab chief engineer Rob Manning., Credit: The Planetary Society
Outgoing Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan shares a few minutes of his very entertaining conversation with bestselling author Andy Weir and Jet Propu...

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


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:47
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: A Mars Exploration Rover crosses the Red Planet in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Bill Nye and Planetary Society members join Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity scientists at a screening of the excellent new documentary about the...

Bought by KIYU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WJCU, WORT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00