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The Ocean's Genome

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Caption: Ocean's Genome, Credit: Seth Shostak

After helping to sequence the human genome more than twenty years ago, biochemist Craig Venter seemed to recede from the public eye. But he hadn’t ...

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Special Episode - Under Pressure

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix

Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...

Exoplanet enigma: Unpacking the discovery of a "forbidden" planet

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: This artist’s conception shows the gas giant TOI-5205b transiting, or passing in front of its host star. This world has been called the “forbidden planet” because of its size and proximity to its small red dwarf star, which goes against our current unders, Credit: Katherine Cain/Carnegie Institution for Science

Shubham Kanodia, the lead on a paper about a so-called “ forbidden planet,” TOI 5202 b, joins us to talk about this strange world and why it's upen...

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RESCUE, part 17: Technology & the Ocean Pharmacopeia

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of...

Finding Endurance

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

In 1915, Endurance, the ship that took Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic, was slowly crushed and sank. Shackleton, and the 28 men he brought with ...

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The Canadian Lunar Rover with Peter Visscher

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Canada's lunar rover will head for the Moon's south polar region as soon as 2026. , Credit: Canadensys Aerospace

Director of Canadensys West Peter Visscher fills us in on the upcoming Canadian lunar rover. Visscher has been working on the rover for years.

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Martian rock collecting: From meteorites to Mars Sample Return

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

Meenakshi Wadhwa, principal scientist for Mars Sample Return at NASA JPL, updates us on the missions that will bring bits of the red planet back to...

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Are we alone? The search for alien technosignatures

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Data from the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is analyzed by volunteers in the new Are We Alone in the Universe project., Credit: NRAO Green Bank Observatory

A new volunteer SETI science project to search for alien technosignatures has launched! Two of its creators tell you how to sign up.

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JWST confirms its first exoplanet

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: An illustration of LHS 475 b based on our current understanding of the planet from JWST spectroscopy., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

We celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's first confirmed exoplanet discovery this week on Planetary Radio. Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, one of the lea...

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Juno Journeys to Jupiter’s Moons

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: An image of Ganymede obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's icy moon., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Dive into the latest discoveries about Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, with Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Juno mis...

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Martian Mic Drop

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Jason Achilles, a musician who partnered with NASA’s JPL to help put one of the first microphones on Mars, shares his journey and the joy of listen...

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Celebrating NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artemis 1 begins its successful lunar mission.

Jeremy Graeber, the assistant launch director at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, joins Planetary Radio to recount his experience on the night of A...

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Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Sarah Al-Ahmed, the new host of Planetary Radio, shaking hands with Mat, creator and former host of the show after their last in-person recording on Dec. 22, 2022., Credit: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society

New host Sarah Al-Ahmed bids a fond farewell to Mat Kaplan, Planetary Radio’s former host, in a special interview as Mat shares stories from his tw...

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Karluk Expedition -- Groks Science Show 2022-12-28

From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show

Buddy Levy discussed his new book, Empire of Ice and Stone.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City

Planetary Society All-Stars Review the Year in Space

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula that were previously obscured., Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

For his last episode as host, Mat Kaplan welcomes many of his Planetary Society colleagues for a review of a spectacular year of space exploration.

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Artemis 1 Orion capsule comes home

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on board the USS Portland after its historic journey around the Moon., Credit: Mat Kaplan

Host Mat Kaplan greets the Orion capsule that has just returned from the Moon.

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One Last Blast: Author of ‘The Martian’ Andy Weir with JPL Chief Engineer Rob Manning

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Host Mat Kaplan with bestselling author Andy Weir and Jet Propulsion Lab chief engineer Rob Manning., Credit: The Planetary Society

Outgoing Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan shares a few minutes of his very entertaining conversation with bestselling author Andy Weir and Jet Propu...

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Good Night Oppy! Hello Mars!

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: A Mars Exploration Rover crosses the Red Planet in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Bill Nye and Planetary Society members join Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity scientists at a screening of the excellent new documentary about the...

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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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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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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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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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