Planetary Radio - The Planetary Society: Episodes
Astronomer Richard Ellis looks forward to the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Planetary scientist Carle Pieters is Principal Investigator for the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, now circling the moon on India's first spacecraft to venture beyond low Earth orbit. Bill Nye the Planetary Guy on grease guns, tool bags and getting the job done in space. Emily Lakdawalla's Q&A tells us why ...
Planetary Society Exec. Director Lou Friedman on the new plan for human exploration of space.
With a new American administration about to take over, we'll spend two weeks looking at where space policy in the USA may go. Space activist and Obamanaut Tim Bailey has been examining Barack Obama's space policy statement. Next week, the new Roadmap to Space with Planetary Society Executive Director ...
We journey to the Palomar Observatory to visit with filmmakers Robin and Todd Mason who have created a great new public television documentary about George Ellery Hale, builder of what were the largest telescopes on Earth. Bill Nye looks back over the Phoenix mission with hope for the future. Emily Lakdawalla's ...
The author of "A Man on the Moon" has just written "A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet." He talks about this inspiring new work from his Vermont home. Is the Cassini mission to Saturn a failure? Emily Lakdawalla responds with a resounding "NO!" Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan celebrate ...
MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon returns with an exclusive report on the spacecraft's very successful second flyby of Mercury. Bill Nye has news about a distinguished new President for the Planetary Society. Emily Lakdawallla explains the differences between the orbiters circling Mars. Bruce ...
The Deputy Project Scientist for the Cassini Mission provides another report on the exciting discoveries being made in the Saturnian system. Bill Nye the Science Guy looks for leadership from NASA. Emily Lakdawalla blows in with more on the storms of Jupiter and Earth. We finish as always with a What's ...
University of Washington Professor Roger Buick has good advice about where a new rover should look for life on the Red Planet. He also looks for the origin of life on this planet. A double helping of Emily Lakdawalla includes her Q&A on Jupiter's storms and an excerpt of her recent webcast about how ...
A growing legion of amateur space scientists and others is helping to get the word out about missions throughout the solar system. Some of them are even delivering valuable new science from mission data. We'll talk with Doug Ellison, a leader in this community who has been reporting from Europlanet ...
Longtime partner Ann Druyan is proud of NASA's new Carl Sagan Fellowships. Bill Nye has a tribute for his old professor.
SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer returns to tell us about a new search now underway on many of SETI@home's one million computers. Astropulse is looking for signals that may reach us as quick, broad pulses of radio energy. Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy looks at the space shuttle and human ...
Engineer, scientist, and executive Livanos talks about his company's fifty years of support for space science, the status of the James Webb Space Telescope, and his passionate concern about climate change and Earth observation. Bill Nye the Science (and Planetary) Guy says LIFE is good...that's the Society's ...
It may be the only book amateur astronomers need. We'll talk with Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders co-author Robert Bruce Thompson. Bill Nye provides reassurance regarding dependence on Russia for access to the ISS. Emily Lakdawalla shines a light on optical communication with spacecraft, ...
After eighteen years in space, a trip to Jupiter and flights over the north and south poles of the Sun, the Ulysses mission is nearing its end. We talk with Mission Operations Manager Nigel Angold of the European Space Agency, who has been based at JPL in California all of those years. Emily Lakdawalla ...
USGS Speleologist J. Judson Wynne joins us via Iridium satellite phone as he prepares to enter another cave in the Mars-like Chilean desert. Bill Nye the Science Guy dips his toe in the lakes of Titan for this week's commentary, while Emily Lakdawalla says "E" is for asteroid, or at least some of them. ...
Distinguished scientist David Morrison of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, while Jack Gregg heads speaks about the 2nd Lunar Regolith Challenge.
An exciting update from the Phoenix Mars Lander team, with further insights from Emily Lakdawalla. Bill Nye also celebrates Phoenix.
As part of our newly-expanded coverage of our own planet, former Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Charlie Kennel shares his concern about the future of the Earth observation program in the United States as other nations are putting new instruments in orbit. Bill Nye applauds space ...
When the MESSENGER spacecraft flew by Mercury in January, it gave us the first up close look in nearly thirty-three years. PI Sean Solomon returns to tell us about the amazing data gathered during the encounter. Bill Nye loves Pluto's new classification. Emily Lakdawalla follows the odyssey of Mars Odyssey, ...