Program Archives

ASTRONOMER HEIDI HAMMEL ON THE NEW JUPITER IMPACT
August 10, 2009
Guests: Heidi Hammel
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Jupiter got another black eye on July 19. Heidi Hammel returns to tell how astronomers around the world jumped into action, even turning the newly-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope toward the big...  more »

DIVING EUROPA WITH THE MAKERS OF UNDER THE SEA 3D AND LONNE LANE
February 9, 2009
Guests: Howard Hall, Michelle Hall, Lonne Lane
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Howard and Michelle Hall's stunning new IMAX film "Under the Sea 3D" premieres this week. We sit down with them and JPL's Lonne Lane to talk about how we'll someday explore a different ocean, the...  more »

RETURN TO JUPITER WITH THE JUNO MISSION
January 26, 2009
Guests: Scott Bolton
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Scott Bolton tells us about his new mission to the solar system's largest planet, where it may discover how our own and other worlds formed. Bill Nye smells gas, natural gas plumes on Mars that may...  more »

ULYSSES MISSION OPERATIONS MANAGER NIGEL ANGOLD ON THE END OF THE SOLAR POLAR JOURNEY
August 25, 2008
Guests: Nigel Angold
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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...  more »

BILL MCKINNON AND ICES AND SEAS IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
August 20, 2007
Guests: Bill McKinnon
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Fresh from a conference on satellites of the outer solar system, planetary scientist Bill McKinnon shares his love and fascination for the icy moons at Jupiter, Saturn, and elsewhere, with special...  more »

NEW HORIZONS AT JUPITER: A REPORT FROM ALAN STERN
May 28, 2007
Guests: Alan Stern
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He may now be an Associate Administrator at NASA, but he's still Principal Investigator for humankind's first trip to Pluto. Alan Stern provides a triumphant report on the recent flyby of Jupiter...  more »

TRIUMPH AT JUPITER!
March 5, 2007
Guests: Alan Stern, John Spencer
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Special coverage of the successful New Horizons encounter with Jupiter and its moons. The Planetary Society's Bruce Betts traveled to the Applied Physics Lab where a team of scientists and engineers...  more »

ALAN STERN AS NEW HORIZONS REACHES JUPITER
February 26, 2007
Guests: Alan Stern, Cheryl Wheeler
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Two very different encounters with Jupiter this week. First up is Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission, with an update on this week's flyby. Then a special visit with...  more »

NEW HORIZONS APPROACHES JUPITER!
January 29, 2007
Guests: John Spencer
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John Spencer returns to preview New Horizons' upcoming encounter with the Jovian system, now less than a month away. John is Deputy Leader of the Jupiter Encounter Science Team. Why does comet...  more »

A VOYAGER MILESTONE WITH ED STONE
August 14, 2006
Guests: Ed Stone
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Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other human-made object, reaching 100 Astronomical Units, or 9.3 billion miles, this week. We talk with former Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Ed Stone,...  more »