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FORMER JPL DIRECTOR BRUCE MURRAY ON THE PERSISTENCE AND IMPORTANCE OF WATER ICE
October 19, 2009 Guests: Bruce Betts, Bruce Murray Select Format: MP3 Windows Media In 1961, Post-Doctoral Fellow Bruce Murray proposed that water ice could persist for millions or even billions of years if cold enough. He went on to lead the Jet Propulsion Lab and co-found The... more »
LUNAR SMACKDOWN! SPECIAL LCROSS IMPACT COVERAGE
October 12, 2009 Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla, Mat Kaplan Select Format: MP3 Windows Media There was no plume of lunar regolith and no confirmation of water, but the Lunar CRarter ObServing Satellite or LCROSS mission smacked into the Moon as planned early Friday morning, October... more »
WATER ON THE MOON!
October 5, 2009 Guests: Jessica Sunshine Select Format: MP3 Windows Media University of Maryland Senior Research Scientist Jessica Sunshine was part of the recent discovery of water on Earth's Moon. Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy says Viking 2 came ever... more »
IS THIS HOW TO LAND PEOPLE ON MARS?
September 28, 2009 Guests: Beth Wusk, Neil Cheatwood, Steve Hughes Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment or IRVE was a success! It might have put us on the path to landing much bigger spacecraft on the Red Planet. We talk with Project Manager Mary Beth Wusk,... more »
ROBERT ZUBRIN SAYS "MARS NOW!"
September 21, 2009 Guests: Robert Zubrin Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The President of the Mars Society and author of "The Case For Mars" says we should have humans on the red planet by the end of the second Obama Administration. You'll hear what he... more »
ROBERT ZUBRIN, 22ND CENTURY MARTIAN
September 14, 2009 Guests: Robert Zubrin Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Planetary Radio opens a spacetime rift enabling us to talk with Robert Zubrin. Not the Robert Zubrin of our own time who heads the Mars Society, but the one who lives in the 22nd century and has... more »
MOUNT WILSON AFTER THE FIRE
September 7, 2009 Guests: Hal McAlister Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Hal McAlister directs the Mt. Wilson Institute. He could barely wait for the firefighters to escort him back up the mountain so that he could assess the damage to this shrine to astronomy. He talks... more »
SATURN UPDATE FROM CASSINI DEPUTY PROJECT SCIENTIST LINDA SPILKER
August 31, 2009 Guests: Linda Spilker Select Format: MP3 Windows Media We check in with Linda Spilker two or three times a year to learn the latest from Saturn, its moons and its rings. Bill Nye has kudos for team that tested an inflatable heat shield. Emily... more »
THE MEANING OF LIFE
August 24, 2009 Guests: Bruce Betts Select Format: MP3 Windows Media LIFE is the Planetary Society's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. Our own Bruce Betts is the Experiment Manager. He tells us about this attempt to send living organisms to Mars' moon... more »
WE'RE ON ASTEROID WATCH WITH JPL'S DON YEOMANS
August 17, 2009 Guests: Don Yeomans Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Asteroid Watch is the new website based at the Jet Propulsion Lab. It's overseen by Don Yeomans, Manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program Office. Don takes us on a tour of the site as we talk... more » |
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