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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for an episode guide and much more.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science The Planetary Society

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    • 4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for an episode guide and much more.

    Eclipse Tips: A guide to safe observing and astrophotography

    Eclipse Tips: A guide to safe observing and astrophotography

    Ron Benner, the President of the American Optometric Association, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy give helpful tips for safely observing the upcoming total solar eclipse in North America.

    • 59 min
    The asteroid hunter

    The asteroid hunter

    Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, joins Planetary Radio to share stories from his new book, The Asteroid Hunter.

    • 56 min
    Tales of totality: The adventures of an eclipse chaser

    Tales of totality: The adventures of an eclipse chaser

    Jim Bell, a professor from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and former president of The Planetary Society's Board of Directors, shares captivating tales from his global eclipse-chasing journeys.

    • 59 min
    Geothermal activity on the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake

    Geothermal activity on the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake

    A team co-led by the Southwest Research Institute has made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing evidence of hydrothermal or metamorphic activity on the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake in the Kuiper Belt. The lead author of this research, Chris Glein, joins Planetary Radio to explain.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Space Policy Edition: The ahistorical era of commercial lunar exploration

    Space Policy Edition: The ahistorical era of commercial lunar exploration

    Science historian Dr. Matt Shindell joins the show to discuss the unique era of commercial lunar exploration, and how planetary exploration has evolved and can continue to evolve on and around the Moon.

    • 1 hr 5 min
    The legacy of Red Rover Goes to Mars

    The legacy of Red Rover Goes to Mars

    Twenty years after a pioneering collaboration between The Planetary Society, NASA, and LEGO, Planetary Radio reflects on the Red Rover Goes to Mars program and the lives it impacted.

    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

65!! ,

Love it

Thank you Sarah. Love the podcast. You’ve done a wonderful job!!! 🖖

Ben*30 ,

Excellent and uplifting

I listen to a lot of news and climate podcasts, which can be a bit sad. This is an excellent podcast that catalogues some of the awesome stuff that comes with living in this era. And Sarah has done a great job carrying on from Mat!

treaves ,

Please stop the fake laughter

Please ask the host to stop her fake and forced laughter. It adds nothing and goes from old to annoying very quickly. It almost to the point I have to stop listening.

“Shocked Pikachu face”, “stupid cry”. You’re not 13, so please stop acting like it.

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