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Exploring Saturn With Cassini
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker returns with the latest discoveries at the beautiful ringed planet, its moons and its rings. Emily...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Zero-G With OK Go!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The carefully-planned madness and joy of OK Go’s Upside Down and Inside Out Zero-G Video Shoot, Credit: OK Go
Have you seen it? OK Go has gone where no band has gone before to make a music video. Mat talks with Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind about the hazar...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: 2) Planet 9 theorists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin study the data in Mike’s Caltech office., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin fully expect a new and undemotable ninth planet will be found in the outer reaches of the solar system. The Calte...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
NASA’s New Planetary Defense Office
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chelyabinsk 2013 explodes over the city on February 15, 2013., Credit: YouTube
Lindley Johnson has just been named NASA's first Planetary Defense Officer. He's joined on this week's PlanRad by astronomer Kelly Fast, the new m...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Messier 5 is a globular cluster containing hundreds of thousands of stars. It is about 25,000 light years from our solar system., Credit: ESA/Hubble
New research indicates that globular clusters—collections of up to a million stars—could provide stable environments for life, along with opportuni...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Dawn Flies Low Over Ceres
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dawn had this view of Ceres at 86 degrees south latitude on Dec. 10, only three days after completing its descent to an average orbital altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers). , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
The Dawn Mission Chief Engineer Marc Rayman returns for another report on the ion-engine powered mission, now orbiting 240 miles above dwarf planet...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Master of the Moonrocks: Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan and moon rock curator Francis McCubbin, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Francis McCubbin is the new Astromaterials Curator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where the priceless collection includes the Apollo moonrocks. J...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Ad Astra Builds "The Martian's" Rocket Engine
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a VASIMIR-powered human interplanetary mission., Credit: Ad Astra Rocket Company
Mat Kaplan visits the Ad Astra Rocket Company in Texas where they are perfecting the VASIMIR electric rocket engine. Emily Lakdawalla has created a...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
2015: A Great Year for Space Exploration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Enhanced color image of Pluto from New Horizons, Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
Our year-end review features the “best of 2015” lists from Jason Davis, Casey Dreier, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science Guy. What’s Up offe...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Congressman John Culberson on a Good Day for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist imagines viewing a Europa water geyser from the surface of Jupiter’s moon., Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
The newly-approved federal budget includes great news for fans of space exploration and development. Texas Congressman John Culberson led the fight...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Join the Field Test: Planetary Deep Drill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Business End of Planetary Deep Drill, Credit: Bruce Betts
Drilling through many meters of ice to Europa’s ocean or to the pristine sub-surface layers of Mars will be hard. The Planetary Deep Drill prototyp...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
A Journey to Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Humans near Mars in this still image from Journey to Space 3D, Credit: K2 Films/Giant Screen Films
Journey to Space is both a new and spectacular IMAX movie and an exciting, hands-on exhibition at the California Science Center. We learn about bot...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
A Tiny Explorer Called Twinkle
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s conception of Twinkle, the UK exoplanet atmosphere explorer, Credit: SSTL/Twinkle/DSS
A small but talented UK team is building Twinkle, a small spacecraft with a big mission—exploring the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Solar System Revelations, and The World’s Biggest Telescope Threatened?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Credit: NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF
Emily Lakdawalla returns from the annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting with big news from around the solar system. Then we talk with scie...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
From Mars to the Stars With Lou Friedman
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Lou Friedman’s new book offers an inspiring view of our future in space., Credit: University of Arizona Press
The founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society has just written “Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars,” an optimistic view of humani...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
A 35th Anniversary Party With Neil Tyson!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Nichelle Nichols presents the Cosmos Award to Neil deGrasse Tyson, Credit: Navid Baraty/The Planetary Society
It was a grand night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. CEO Bill Nye led the Planetary Society’s 35th anniversary party with guests including Neil d...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
A Conversation With Andy Weir of "The Martian"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Matt Damon as "The Martian", Credit: 20th Century Fox
It was the #1 New York Times bestseller, and as this week’s Planetary Radio premiered it was once again the most popular movie in the USA. “The Ma...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Pluto Amazes!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The enhanced, rich colors of Pluto, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Hal Weaver is a very happy Project Scientist. His New Horizons spacecraft has shocked his fellow researchers with magnificent images and data. He s...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Big Rockets and Little LightSails
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Space Launch System on the Launchpad, Credit: NASA
Digital editor Jason Davis is a lucky guy. He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sai...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Imaging a Hot Young Jupiter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: “Hot young Jupiter” 51 Eri b as imagined in an artist’s conception., Credit: Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis, SETI Institute
Franck Marchis is on the team that has delivered an actual image of a young, hot world about 100 light years from Earth. We talk with him on the 20...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Humans Orbiting Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the view above Mars, Credit: NASA
Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon led the Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop last spring. They return with Casey Dreier as the report on that workshop is ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Zibi Turtle and Exploring the Ice Giants
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ice Giant Neptune, Credit: NASA
They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle celebrates NA...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: PI Dante Lauretta (r.) and Kevin Walsh in the Lockheed Martin clean room with OSIRIS-REx, Credit: Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta heads the most ambitious mission to an asteroid ever mounted. With one year left till launch, he returns to Planetary Radio with an ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Flying High on SOFIA
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared telescope wide open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – soars over California's snow-covered Southern Sierras., Credit: NASA/Jim Ross
Planetary Radio returns to SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, but this time we fly in the giant 747 turned telescope plat...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6