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A MARS ROVER UPDATE FROM STEVE SQUYRES
April 14, 2008 Guests: Steve Squyres Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Principal Investigator for Spirit and Opportunity gives us a status report on the incredibly successful rovers that continue to explore Mars. Bill Nye the Science Guy comments on the rings that... more »
ANALYZING ALIEN ATMOSPHERES
April 7, 2008 Guests: Mark Swain Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the team that has found methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is the first time an organic molecule has been found on an... more »
FLYING THROUGH THE GEYSERS OF ENCELADUS
March 31, 2008 Guests: John Spencer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Southwest Research Institute's John Spencer returns to tell us about the Cassini spacecraft's recent flight through the gas and dust plumes shooting out of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Emily... more »
SIR ARTHUR CLARKE: A TRIBUTE
March 24, 2008 Guests: Arthur C. Clarke, James D. Burke Select Format: MP3 Windows Media You'll hear Arthur's greeting to the future Martians recorded for Visions of Mars, now racing to the Red Planet on the Phoenix... more »
LOOK OUT! IT'S A MARTIAN AVALANCHE!
March 17, 2008 Guests: Alfred McEwen Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The latest triumph of the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the image of a Martian landslide. We talk with Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen about his teams' marvelous... more »
JOHN ANDERSON AND THE FLYBY ANOMALY
March 10, 2008 Guests: John Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media First the Pioneer Anomaly, now a new challenge to physics appears in the Flyby Anomaly. JPL celestial mechanics expert John Anderson... more »
SAVING THE PLANET: THE APOPHIS MISSION DESIGN COMPETITION
March 3, 2008 Guests: Bruce Betts, Louis Friedman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Special coverage of the conclusion of The Planetary Society's international competition to design a mission that would "tag" asteroid and near-Earth object Apophis. Bill Nye the Science Guy is... more »
MORE FROM JPL'S LINDA AND TOM SPILKER
February 25, 2008 Guests: Linda Spilker, Tom Spilker Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The couple that explores space together continues their conversation with host Mat Kaplan. Linda and Tom are part of a team that has proposed the first mission to Neptune since Voyager. They also... more »
A CASSINI AT SATURN PROGRESS REPORT WITH LINDA AND TOM SPILKER
February 18, 2008 Guests: Linda Spilker, Tom Spilker Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker rejoins us for another update on the incredibly successful Cassini-Huygens mission, but this time she is joined by her husband and colleague Tom... more »
CELEBRATING THE MESSENGER MERCURY FLYBY WITH SEAN SOLOMON
February 11, 2008 Guests: Sean Solomon Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Sean Solomon's MESSENGER spacecraft gave us our first close up look at Mercury in thirty-three years. The mission's Principal Investigator returns to tell us about the exciting data and images that... more » |
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