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.

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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.

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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

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Bill Nye's Washington Advocacy Report - July 2013

The latest update from Bill Nye on The Planetary Society's Save our Science advocacy campaign.

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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"

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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.

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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?

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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?).

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Intro Astronomy 2013. Class 13: Galaxies, the Universe, Life

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Lecture 13 of Dr. Bruce Betts' 2013 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course begins with a conversation with Bill Nye about profound questions in the universe, then covers galaxies (our place in the Milky Way, types of galaxies, Hubble Deep Field), the Universe (determining distances, expansion of the universe, Big Bang theory and evolution of the universe, WMAP and Planck results, dark matter, dark energy, neutrinos), and life in the universe (Earth life requirements, astrobiology, SETI). Recorded at California State University Dominguez Hills.

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Intro Astronomy 2013. Class 12: The Sun and Stars

Lecture 12 of Dr. Bruce Betts' 2013 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers the Sun (physical characteristics, zones, solar cycle, sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, fusion, etc.) and Stars and Stellar Lecture 12 of Dr. Bruce Betts' 2013 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers the Sun (physical characteristics, zones, solar cycle, sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, fusion, etc.) and Stars and Stellar Evolution (star types and colors, evolution, HR Diagrams, birth and death phases, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes), as well as brief coverage of solar sails and Lagrange Points. Recorded at California State University Dominguez Hills. Note this lecture was previously recorded.

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