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NEW MODEL FOR THE SEAS OF MARS
November 15, 2010 Guests: Alexis Rodriguez Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Research Scientist Alexis Rodriguez and his colleagues at the Planetary Science Institute have put forward a new model for the ancient formation of lakes and seas on the Red Planet. If their... more »
RAY BRADBURY TURNS 90 AND THE BEST MARS MAP EVER
August 30, 2010 Guests: Ray Bradbury, Phil Christensen Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Ray Bradbury's hometown of Los Angeles celebrates his birthday at city hall, while Phil Christensen's THEMIS team has created Earth's most accurate map of Mars. Emily Lakdawalla is at her space... more »
PHOENIX IS DEAD...LONG LIVE PHOENIX!
May 31, 2010 Guests: Peter Smith Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Phoenix Mars Lander Principal Investigator Peter Smith returns to comment on confirmation of the death of his polar lander. Data from the successful mission is still being analyzed by scientists... more »
IT'S MARS ROVER OPPORTUNITY, ONLY SMARTER
April 12, 2010 Guests: Daniel Gaines Select Format: MP3 Windows Media JPL engineer Daniel Gaines helped develop new software that has enabled Opportunity to autonomously select objects for close-up imaging as she races across Mars. Emily Lakdawalla is thrilled by... more »
YOUR PERSONAL PHOTOSHOOT ON MARS?
March 15, 2010 Guests: Alfred McEwen Select Format: MP3 Windows Media HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen returns with a report on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's super sharp camera and the new HiWish program that lets anyone suggest sites on the Red Planet for... more »
MARS ROVER PROJECT MANAGER JOHN CALLAS
February 1, 2010 Guests: John Callas Select Format: MP3 Windows Media John Callas returns to tell us why, after six years, an end to Spirit's roving does not mean the end of her work on the red planet. Emily Lakdawalla looks to the other side of Mars where Opportunity... more »
THE CAVES OF MARS AND THE GEYSERS OF ENCELADUS
November 23, 2009 Guests: Emily Lakdawalla, Glen Cushing Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Emily Lakdawalla tells us about the amazing images of Enceladus just taken by the Cassini spacecraft. You have to see them to believe them. Then Glen Cushing of the US Geological Survey talks about... 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 » |
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