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THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARS
July 16, 2007 Guests: Bruce Murray, Kenneth Tanaka, Greg Delory Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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 »
EXPLORING THE MYSTERY OF DARK MATTER WITH RICHARD MASSEY
May 21, 2007 Guests: Richard Massey Select Format: MP3 Windows Media How are we finding and even mapping dark matter when it can't be seen? CalTech's Richard Massey is one of the researchers who has learned how to map the mysterious material that dominates the... more »
STUDYING THE RINGS WITH IMKE DE PATER
May 14, 2007 Guests: Imke de Pater Select Format: MP3 Windows Media We're learning so much about the rings that surround the gas giant planets in our solar system, yet many mysteries remain. We'll chat with astronomer Imke de Pater of UC Berkeley, and get news of... more » |
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