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Celebrating Planetary Radio’s 20th Anniversary with Bill Nye
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Host Mat Kaplan reports from the Red Planet on Planetary Radio's 20th anniversary.
Join the Planetary Society’s CEO and others as we mark Planetary Radio’s entry into its third decade.

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Planetary Radio host and his Mirror Lab tour guide Buell Jannuzi with one of the seven huge mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. , Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for a tour of the University of Arizona’s Mirror Lab where they use a giant, spinning oven filled with molten glass to create the primary m...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Linda Spilker and Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan check out the geysers emanating from a model of Saturn's moon Enceladus at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker has now taken on the same job for the Voyager Interstellar Mission.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - Advocating for Sharks and Other "Scary" Creatures
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Rachel Graham experienced a real-life sharknado on a dive trip, she knew her future was connected to these amazing and threatened creatures.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Ann Druyan wishes you a happy Sagan Day
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Carl Sagan was a co-founder of The Planetary Society., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate Carl Sagan’s birthday with his longtime collaborator and life partner Ann Druyan.

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - Life As an Astronaut
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An astronaut experiences a juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane, sensing God while floating weightless, fixing cables outside his spacecraft.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
DART smacked an asteroid! So what’s next in planetary defense?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This artist's concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In 2013, the mission was brought out of hibernation to hunt for more asteroids and comets in a project called NEOWISE., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was a brilliant success. The leaders of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tell us what’s next in th...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Meet the new Planetary Radio host!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New host Sarah Al-Ahmed is introduced by current host and Planetary Radio creator Mat Kaplan in this week's episode.
After 20 years at the helm, Mat Kaplan introduces the person who will take over Planetary Radio when the new year begins.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
735: Our Time Of Mourning / 736: Secrets Of Alchemy , 10/22/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? The pandemic has brought us a period of global mournin...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Eyes on the Sky: Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: One of the Catalina Sky Survey/Steward Observatory telescopes on Mt. Lemmon prepares for another night of asteroid hunting., Credit: CSS/Steward Observatory
Meet leaders of two of the most successful Earth-based searches for asteroids, including many thousands that could threaten Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Constant Wonder - The Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The abyss of the deep sea is anything but lifeless!

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of an advanced, spaceship., Credit: NASA/MSFC
Join us at the 2022 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium for a taste of projects that just might change the world.

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory on its termination
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With its giant infrared telescope open to the sky, SOFIA flies toward another night of observation, Credit: NASA/DLR
Director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations Margaret Meixner joins us to lament the end of the giant flying observatory and to celebrate its treme...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Ramon Velazquez Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the herbicide glyphosate can cross the blood-brain barrier, resulting in an increase of neuro-inflammation? Join Food Sleuth Radi...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Dimorphos imaged by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft seconds before the probe impacted., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Listen as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft closes in on asteroid Dimorphos, followed by a triumphant conversation with DART Coordina...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft races toward its impact on asteroid Dimorphos in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is set for Sept. 26. We’ll get a preview of this historic smackdown from the mission’s c...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
A Space Coast Conversation with European Space Agency Leader Josef Aschbacher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An Artemis astronaut collects a promising rock on the Moon., Credit: NASA
Host Mat Kaplan spends a few minutes talking with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, at the first attempt to launch A...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Food Sleuth Radio, Barry Boyd Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that insulin resistance increases risk for chronic diseases? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn,...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sun rises on the morning of August 29, 2022 at the Kennedy Space Center as the countdown continues toward launch of Artemis 1., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues in Florida for the first attempt to launch the Space Launch System rocket on a mission to the Moon.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Science unscripted 08/30/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: End of August

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet., Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s a party for Voyager and the team of scientists, engineers and others who have followed it across our solar system. Then we’ll visit with Ann D...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
719: The Secret Language Of Trees / 720: Pick Your Poison, 8/27/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'The Secret Language of Trees' - Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Science unscripted 08/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: With Artemis about to launch, we need to ask ourselves an important question: What do we actually want for our moon?

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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
Getting precious Mars rocks into Earthbound labs is an unprecedented challenge. We’ll hear how a lander, a rocket, a big solar-powered transfer veh...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Sarah King, M.S., Head of Greenpeace Canada's Oceans and Plastics campaign.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the United Nations has declared plastic pollution a global crisis? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2