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PHOENIX MARS LANDER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PETER SMITH
July 30, 2007
Guests: Peter Smith
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Phoenix will soon be on its way to the Red Planet. Principal Investigator Peter Smith tells us about his aptly-named bird that will set down much farther north on Mars than any previous lander. ...  more »

HONORING RAY BRADBURY, MARS PHOTOGRAPHER
July 23, 2007
Guests: Ray Bradbury, Phil Christensen, Louis Friedman
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The Planetary Society recently sponsored a special benefit performance of Ray Bradbury's hit play, Green Town. Ray was presented with a beautiful image of a spot on Mars he had selected for imaging....  more »

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARS
July 16, 2007
Guests: Bruce Murray, Kenneth Tanaka, Greg Delory
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500 members of Earth's Mars appreciation club gathered at CalTech in Pasadena, California last week. Scientists presented the latest research on Mars.  more »

DEEP IMPACT RETURNS FOR AN INTERPLANETARY THREE-FOR-ONE
July 9, 2007
Guests: Mike A'Hearn
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Deep Impact wowed the world with its explosive investigation of a comet two years ago. Now the spacecraft has been given a new mission that combines two very different tasks. We talk with then and...  more »

A NEW DAWN FOR INTERPLANETARY EXPLORATION
July 2, 2007
Guests: Marc Rayman
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Dawn Discovery Mission Project System Engineer Marc Rayman joins us to talk about this revolutionary spacecraft's journey to the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Emily...  more »

GOING SOUTH TO LOOK FOR ET
June 25, 2007
Guests: Guillermo Lemarchand
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Southern SETI Director Guillermo Lemarchand describes from Buenos Aires why his search for extraterrestrial intelligence is uniquely exciting. Emily Lakdawalla sheds light on how spacecraft take...  more »

ARE THERE GIANT CAVES ON MARS?
June 18, 2007
Guests: Glen Cushing, Wendy Jaeger, Tim Titus
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Their discoverers call them the seven sisters. Are these holes in Mars merely very deep pits, or are they skylights opening on huge caves? Glen Cushing, Windy Jaeger, and Tim Titus of the United...  more »

AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEAR EARTH OBJECTS
June 11, 2007
Guests: Peter Birtwhistle, James McGaha
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The Planetary Society has just named seven more recipients of Shoemaker NEO (Near Earth Object) Grants. We check in with two past awardees to hear how they contribute to the worldwide watch for...  more »

DIGGING FOR DOLLARS ON THE MOON: THE LUNAR REGOLITH CHALLENGE
June 4, 2007
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Special coverage of NASA's Lunar Regolith Challenge, with robot excavators after a $250,000 prize.  more »

NEW HORIZONS AT JUPITER: A REPORT FROM ALAN STERN
May 28, 2007
Guests: Alan Stern
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He may now be an Associate Administrator at NASA, but he's still Principal Investigator for humankind's first trip to Pluto. Alan Stern provides a triumphant report on the recent flyby of Jupiter...  more »