Program Archives

FORMER JPL DIRECTOR BRUCE MURRAY ON THE PERSISTENCE AND IMPORTANCE OF WATER ICE
October 19, 2009
Guests: Bruce Betts, Bruce Murray
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In 1961, Post-Doctoral Fellow Bruce Murray proposed that water ice could persist for millions or even billions of years if cold enough. He went on to lead the Jet Propulsion Lab and co-found The...  more »

LUNAR SMACKDOWN! SPECIAL LCROSS IMPACT COVERAGE
October 12, 2009
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla, Mat Kaplan
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There was no plume of lunar regolith and no confirmation of water, but the Lunar CRarter ObServing Satellite or LCROSS mission smacked into the Moon as planned early Friday morning, October...  more »

THE MEANING OF LIFE
August 24, 2009
Guests: Bruce Betts
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LIFE is the Planetary Society's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. Our own Bruce Betts is the Experiment Manager. He tells us about this attempt to send living organisms to Mars' moon...  more »

SAVING THE PLANET: THE APOPHIS MISSION DESIGN COMPETITION
March 3, 2008
Guests: Bruce Betts, Louis Friedman
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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 »

MESSENGER REVEALS MERCURY
January 21, 2008
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla
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The MESSENGER spacecraft reached Mercury last week. Bruce Betts reports from the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland where the mission team celebrated success. Emily Lakdawalla comments on the...  more »

A VERY GOOD YEAR: LOOKING BACK AT 2007
December 31, 2007
Guests: Bruce Betts, Emily Lakdawalla
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Mat Kaplan is joined by Emily Lakdawalla and Bruce Betts for a review of 2007's biggest planetary science stories. Bruce sticks around for this week's edition of What's Up, including a more »

TO PHOBOS AND BACK
November 13, 2007
Guests: Alexander Zakharov, Tom Duxbury, Bruce Betts
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Highlights of a Planetary Society seminar about the little potato-shaped moon of Mars. We'll hear from Tom Duxbury, Phobos expert at JPL, from Alexander Zakharov of the Russian Space Research...  more »

INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE BETTS
December 2, 2002
Guests: Bruce Betts
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The second show in the Society's new public radio series features a review of our many exciting projects. You'll also hear Emily Lakdawalla looking for water on Mars, and a special story about robots...  more »