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A NEAR MISS FOR MARS AND BILL NYE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MERCURY!
January 14, 2008
Guests: Don Yeomans
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A fifty meter asteroid will narrowly miss Mars according to Don Yeomans, Manager of the NASA Near Earth Object Program Office. We talk with Don at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the more than...  more »

MARS EXPLORATION ROVER PROGRAM MANAGER JOHN CALLAS
November 19, 2007
Guests: John Callas
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Hard to believe it has been almost four years (and two Martian years) since the first Mars Exploration Rover crawled onto the surface of the Red Planet. John Callas of JPL provides a status report...  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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

MARS EXPRESS CONFIRMS LOTS OF POLAR ICE! WHERE'S THE REST?
March 26, 2007
Guests: Jeffrey Plaut
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Jet Propulsion Lab Principal Scientist Jeffrey Plaut is also a Co-Principal Investigator on the MARSIS radar carried by the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter. He talks about what the...  more »

EUROPE'S ROSETTA ON ITS WAY TO A COMET
March 12, 2007
Guests: Gerhard Schwehm
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Project Scientist Gerhard Schwehm reports on Rosetta's recent successful flyby of Mars and what's in store for the spacecraft even before it goes into orbit around a comet and launches a lander. ...  more »