Podcasts
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Latest Videos
Has Voyager 1 left the Solar System?
Guests
- Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
Has Voyager 1 left the Solar System? What does it mean that it has entered interstellar space? Bruce Betts discusses in this short video.
Planetary Radio LIVE Webcast of LADEE's Launch to the Moon
Guests
- David Paige, Professor of Planetary Sciences, UCLA
- Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
- Mat Kaplan
Join lunar scientist Dr. David Paige, LADEE EPO Coordinator Brian Day, Bill Nye, and the Society's Mat Kaplan and Dr. Bruce Betts in front of a crowd of 150 space fans as they celebrate LADEE's launch to the Moon.
Special Hangout: Curiosity's First Year on Mars with Dr. Ashwin Vasavada
Guests
- Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
We celebrate the first full year of operations on the martian surface with Deputy Project Scientist Dr. Ashwin Vasavada from JPL
Bill Nye's Washington Advocacy Report - July 2013
The latest update from Bill Nye on The Planetary Society's Save our Science advocacy campaign.
The Space Computer and the Beautiful Worlds
The Cassini mission to Saturn--described using only the one thousand most common English words, in the style of "Up Goer 5"
Planetary Society Hangout: What's going on with Planetary Science cuts?
Guests
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
- Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society
Planetary Society Advocacy Coordinator Casey Dreier discusses the background and latest funding problems facing Planetary Science at NASA. Emily Lakdawalla joins him to talk about her visit to Washington, D.C. to talk about planetary missions.
Thank You for Writing to Save Our Science, Can you Send to a Friend?
Guests
- Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer
Thanks for helping to Save Our Science by writing your Congressional representatives about NASA's Planetary Science Budget. Can you take a minute and forward this message to your friends and colleagues?
Planetary Society Hangout: A Day in the Life of the Opportunity Rover with Emily Dean
Guests
- Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society
Emily Dean has worked on Opportunity since its inception, starting when she was a high school student. While working on the mission, she followed her passion in art and architecture, and still works on Opportunity to this day. We explore how her unique background affects her work and what it's like to work on Opportunity day to day (or is it sol to sol?).
Hangout on Air with Michael Puzio, Kid Who Named Asteroid Bennu
Guests
- Michael Puzio, age 9, Bennu
- Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
- Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator, University of Arizona
Meet the kid who named Bennu! Bennu will be the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission. The name was suggested by 9-year-old Michael Puzio in a contest that attracted more than 8000 entries.
2013 Planetary Defense Conference--Part 5: Bill Nye Joins Inspiring Panel Discussion
Guests
- Brent Barbee, Flight Dynamics Engineer, Goddard space Flight Center
- Mat Kaplan
- Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Cathy Plesko, Applied Physics Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- David Trilling, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University
Moderator Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio leads a lively and inspiring conversation in the grand finale of the PDC public event. Four outstanding young leaders in the planetary defense community join Bill and Mat on stage.
More Multimedia
Bruce Betts' Online College Intro Astronomy Course 2013
Planetary Society Director of Projects Dr. Bruce Betts taugh an online introductory college Astronomy class during Spring semester 2013 that watch the archive of here. The course was through California State University Dominguez Hills.
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