The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
Join us at the Jet Propulsion Lab for the celebration of the two Voyager spacecrafts’ 45-year journey across the solar system and beyond. Stick around for a stimulating conversation with Ann Druyan, c...
31 Aug 20221h 18min
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
We now know the rough outline of how NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) expect to get the samples collected by Perseverance off Mars and into labs on Earth. Mars Sample Return Program Manager Ri...
24 Aug 202238min
A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves
Astronomer Jane Greaves and her worldwide team have had quite a ride. It has been two years since the Cardiff University professor announced evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. Many scie...
17 Aug 202248min
Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury
Scientists have used data collected by an exquisitely sensitive instrument on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe to find a stunning collection of complex organic molecules at the comet known as...
10 Aug 202243min
Space Policy Edition: Lori Garver on Bringing Change to NASA
As NASA’s deputy administrator, Lori Garver fought to cancel the Constellation program and shift NASA to use commercial partnerships in spaceflight. She failed at the first but succeeded at the second...
5 Aug 20221h 13min
Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists Armin Kleinboehl and Marek Slipski lead a new project that is recruiting thousands of citizen explorers. They explain to host Mat Kaplan how this massive effort may ...
3 Aug 202235min
New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
She is only the tenth director of JPL, and the first woman to hold the position. It’s a homecoming for Laurie Leshin who got her PhD at Caltech, the operator of JPL on behalf of NASA. Laurie talks abo...
27 Juli 20221h 1min
Science from the Moon, and former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back
Host Mat Kaplan leads with a special announcement. Then we spend a fascinating hour with the former director of NASA’s Planetary Science division and retired chief scientist Jim Green, who reports on ...
20 Juli 20221h 19min
