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A VERY GOOD YEAR: LOOKING BACK AT 2007
December 31, 2007
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla
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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 »

A NEW GENERATION LOOKING FOR ET
December 10, 2007
Guests: Curtis Mead
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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
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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 »

TO PHOBOS AND BACK
November 13, 2007
Guests: Alexander Zakharov, Tom Duxbury, Bruce Betts
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Highlights of a Planetary Society seminar about the little potato-shaped moon of Mars. We'll hear from Tom Duxbury, Phobos expert at JPL, from Alexander Zakharov of the Russian Space Research...  more »

CELEBRATING SPUTNIK WITH LOUIS FRIEDMAN IN MOSCOW
October 8, 2007
Guests: Louis Friedman
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The 50th anniversary of the beginning of the space age found Planetary Society Executive Director Louis Friedman in Moscow. We'll talk to Lou about the celebration there, and how the first human...  more »

THE PIONEER ANOMALY: CHANGING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
September 10, 2007
Guests: Slava Turyshev
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JPL research scientist Slava Turyshev returns to provide an update on the Pioneer Anomaly project. With just a couple of obstacles left to overcome, almost thirty years of mission data are almost...  more »

PHOENIX IS ON ITS WAY TO MARS
August 6, 2007
Guests: Amir Alexander, Jon Lomberg
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The Phoenix lander is off for the north polar region of the Red Planet. The Planetary Society's Amir Alexander was at the Kennedy Space Center. We'll talk with him about the exciting pre-launch...  more »

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 »

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 »