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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
Standing Up to China: How a Whistleblower Risked Everything for his Country
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ashley Yablon, Credit: Podcast
The life of a whistleblower is not easy. Just ask Dallas lawyer Ashley Yablon. In 2011 he landed what he thought was an ideal job: General Council ...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/22/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Got omicron twice? - There is more than one kind of omicron. And data has just come out on whether you might get infecte...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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
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
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
Nobel laureate John Mather: The promise of the James Webb Space Telescope
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope in space., Credit: NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
JWST senior project scientist John Mather has been looking forward to the new space telescope’s first light for more than 30 years. He joins us wit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
A world of space geysers and what lies beneath
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A true-color view of Enceladus' southern plumes. , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Kevin M. Gill
New research shows that the giant plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus may not be coming from the warm ocean deep below the icy surface.

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/18/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Mass viral infections have consequences. What will omicron's be?

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Curiosity rolls on: Mars Science Laboratory project scientist Ashwin Vasavada
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A Picture Postcard From Curiosity's Navcams: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day; blue, orange, and green color was added to a combination of both panoramas for an , Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Curiosity rover’s lead researcher reviews the latest findings and images from Mars’ Gale Crater.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
It Began with LEGO®
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to the executive director of ​Sylvania STEM Center, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit and Northwest Ohio's r...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a ...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
We have touched the Sun: The Parker Solar Probe’s triumph
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s impression of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Alfvén critical surface, which marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. Parker Solar Probe’s crossing into this zone in April 2021 means the spacecraft has “touche, Credit: NASA/Johns Hop
A spacecraft has penetrated the Sun’s corona for the first time, revealing unprecedented data and capturing a mind-blowing video.

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
12-16: Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science, 1/19/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ben Knight
A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online softwar...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/04/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
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This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Return to the Moon: Preparing for splashdown in the Pacific
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan talks with USS John P. Murtha captain Gervy Alota next to the Orion capsule test article aboard the ship., Credit: Mat Kaplan
A shipboard update on how the Artemis 1 Orion capsule will be recovered from the Pacific Ocean.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/21/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A mosaic of 102 Viking orbiter images of Mars, showing a hemisphere of the planet centered on the immense Valles Marineris canyon system. Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
“Discovering Mars” is the new chronicle of humanity’s long relationship with the Red Planet, assembled by space historian William Sheehan and Mars ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
JWST is ready for launch and amazing science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope seen being prepared for transport to French Guiana for launch later this year., Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Three astronomers share what they hope the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal about our universe after its launch this month.

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
A conversation with the director of “Don’t Look Up”
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio are astronomers trying to save the world from a comet in Don't Look Up., Credit: Netflix
Director Adam McKay and planetary defense expert Amy Mainzer join us for a conversation about the film and the science behind it.

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist concept of the surface of exoplanet Trappist-1f, a world that may be capable of supporting life., Credit: NASA
NASA’s Jim Green and Mary Voytek want the science community to develop tools that will help us evaluate potential evidence of life beyond Earth.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12

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