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Since 2002, Planetary Radio has visited with a scientist, engineer, project manager, advocate, or writer who provides a unique perspective on the quest for knowledge about our Solar System and beyond. The full show archive is available for free.
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Is Anybody Home? Assessing A Planet's Habitability
Here's the second half of our December show recorded in front of a live audience: Mars rover updates, two more spacey songs from KJ Williams, and the big finish of Emily Lakdawalla's proof that she is not covering up evidence of aliens in our solar system! You'll also hear a brand new What's Up segment from Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan.
We once again go before a live audience for an all Mars rover show. We've also got singer KJ Williams, Bill Nye the Planetary Guy, and Emily Lakdawalla's proof that she is not covering up evidence of aliens in our solar system!
Astronaut Rex Walheim: NASA Is Looking for a Few Good Spacemen and Women
Emily Lakdawalla's Special Report on the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Author Dava Sobel's New Book About Copernicus: A More Perfect Heaven
New Mexico Space Adventure: Back to the First International Planetary Caves Workshop
New Mexico Cave Adventure With Penny Boston and the First International Planetary Caves Workshop
Touring the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak
New Mexico Journey: Dale Frail of the Very Large Array Radio Telescope
Multidisciplinary scientist Laurance Doyle led the team that has announced discovery of the first extrasolar planet circling two stars. He also talks about his plan to analyze communication by and among other species.
A Cassini Saturn Update From Linda Spilker
All-Star CalTech Panel Discussion: Moving an Asteroid
Emily Lakdawalla Reports on the Latest Planetary Science
The Beauty of Space with Space Artists Don Dixon and Jon Ramer
Building a Better Galaxy With Javiera Guedes
Ending the World With a Song at Dragon Con
Opportunity reaches Endeavour Crater, Emily Lakdawalla visits a New Horizons science meeting about Pluto, Bill Nye discusses a planet made of diamond, and Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan celebrate the award of a Parsec award to Planetary Radio.
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden
Flying With Your Telescope to the Edge of Space