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Part 1: The City
From: Robyn Shipton
Series: Water Is For Fighting
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
LEAVES
From: Kate Madara
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Amaryllis grows like a bone in a coffin, opening up the cavern of the dream weaver hidden below the Forest Roost. Laid out, it looks like a branch.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 11:18
Northeast Minnesota - A history of fire, ice and inland seas
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: The Lake Superior Project/Logo by Lauryl Loberg
Northeast Minnesota has undergone many geologic events to produce the landscape we know today.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
484-Aliens?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
467-Time Travel
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Looking out into space takes you back in time. To experience time travel go to a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground Internationa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
460-TESS
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KSFR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
440-Tracking Elon's Car
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
433-Tiniest Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
430-Deportee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
428-Phaethon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet.During it's close approac...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
427-Meteor Whispers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
417-Red Dwarf Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
407-Plant Companionship
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
396-Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
381-Peaceful Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
374-Brute
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still being discovered.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
371-2 Headed Space Worm
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7