WHAT WE DO


JOINRENEWJOIN

30th Anniversary of The Planetary Society
 

Browse Past Shows

Program Archives

Browse by Date



EXAMINING THE VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION: A WORKSHOP PREVIEW
January 28, 2008
Guests: Louis Friedman
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

Planetary Society Executive Director Louis Friedman previews a gathering at Stanford University that will examine the Vision for Space Exploration offered by President George W. Bush four years ago. ...  more »

MESSENGER REVEALS MERCURY
January 21, 2008
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

The MESSENGER spacecraft reached Mercury last week. Bruce Betts reports from the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland where the mission team celebrated success. Emily Lakdawalla comments on the...  more »

A NEAR MISS FOR MARS AND BILL NYE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MERCURY!
January 14, 2008
Guests: Don Yeomans
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

A fifty meter asteroid will narrowly miss Mars according to Don Yeomans, Manager of the NASA Near Earth Object Program Office. We talk with Don at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the more than...  more »

A WINGED MESSENGER REACHES MERCURY, AND BILL NYE PREMIERES!
January 7, 2008
Guests: Sean Solomon
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

On January 14, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to visit Mercury in 33 years. Principal Investigator Sean Solomon prepares us for this historic flyby. Emily Lakdawalla explains how...  more »

A VERY GOOD YEAR: LOOKING BACK AT 2007
December 31, 2007
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

Mat Kaplan is joined by Emily Lakdawalla and Bruce Betts for a review of 2007's biggest planetary science stories. Bruce sticks around for this week's edition of What's Up, including a more »

ION ENGINES DRIVE DAWN TO ASTEROIDS VESTA AND CERES
December 24, 2007
Guests: Chris Russell
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

The Dawn spacecraft is on its way to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, powered by its ion engines. Principal investigator Chris Russell leads the international team behind it. He joins us for a...  more »

OBSERVING EARTH: ANNMARIE ELDERING'S EYE ON OUR ATMOSPHERE
December 17, 2007
Guests: Annmarie Eldering
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

JPL atmospheric scientist Annmarie Eldering is Deputy Principal Investigator for the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the Earth observing satellite called Aura. She'll tell us how it is...  more »

A NEW GENERATION LOOKING FOR ET
December 10, 2007
Guests: Curtis Mead
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

Young scientists and engineers in training are vital contributors to many research projects, including the All-Sky Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Harvard University. That's...  more »

STARDUST@HOME UPDATE FROM ANDREW WESTPHAL
December 3, 2007
Guests: Andrew Westphal
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

Stardust@Home Director Andrew Westphal returns to Planetary Radio as the project prepares to extract the first bits of interstellar matter found by 23,000 trained volunteers. Emily Lakdawalla looks...  more »

PLANETARY RADIO 5TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW: ASTRONOMER GEOFF MARCY ON DISCOVERY OF FIFTH PLANET IN STAR SYSTEM
November 26, 2007
Guests: Geoff Marcy
Select Format: MP3    Windows Media   

We celebrate our 5th anniversary by learning about discovery of a five-planet star system, the largest found so far. Q&A on Jupiter's red spot.  more »