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New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May., Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laurie Leshin has just become the tenth director of JPL and the first woman to run the fabled center for space science and robotic exploration.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
704-Mini-Moons(490)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Captures Mini-Moon, Credit: K. Teramura UHIFA
There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Former NASA chief scientist Jim Green, Credit: NASA
The former director of NASA’s Planetary Science division, Jim Green, retired as the agency’s chief scientist in January. This episode opens with a ...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
703-Martian Water(489)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this stunning view of the Carina Nebula, located about 7,500 light-years from Earth. Nicknamed the "cosmic cliffs," it is essentially a nursery for young stars., Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
NASA and its partners have revealed the first stunning images from the new space telescope. We’ll talk about them with Bill Nye and members of the ...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
702-20 Years(488)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Hero of the New Space Age: Lori Garver and Escaping Gravity
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cover of Lori Garver's great new book., Credit: Diversion Books
Lori Garver went up against powerful forces inside and outside NASA to create the hugely successful commercial cargo and crew programs.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Day serves as a reminder of the threat posed to our planet by near-Earth objects, and the campaign to protect ourselves from them., Credit: Asteroid Day Foundation
A co-founder of the annual, worldwide event, and the leader of the European Space Agency’s planetary defense program mark the 114th anniversary of ...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This image taken by The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft on Feb. 27, 2021 shows the Red Sea, Nile River, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and surrounding areas. North is approximately at top right., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate the third anniversary of LightSail 2’s launch with Bill Nye and other leaders of The Planetary Society.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is the great new memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Credit: William Morrow
Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young W...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
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
697-Double Trouble(483)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Binary Asteroid, Credit: ESA
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
696-Botswana Fragment(482)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

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  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
694-Comet Catalina(479)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
693-Comet Leonard III(478)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Christensen, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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