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Mat Kaplan

Announcing a new space book club, where Planetary Society members can discuss great books and connect directly with authors and other experts.

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Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan has an announcement for listeners.

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Mat Kaplan explains his beef with the National Geographic Mars documentary-drama series.

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Announcing Planetary Radio Extra: Space Policy Edition (PRE:SPE for short)—a new spinoff of Planetary Radio that will delve into the weeds of space policy and politics.

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Mat Kaplan pays a heartfelt tribute to a science fiction icon.

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Mat Kaplan honors the memory of a scientific pioneer.

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Mat Kaplan reviews a comprehensive new collection of historic and modern space art from author and superb space artist Ron Miller.

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Mat Kaplan gives his take on the stunningly beautiful short film that's been making the rounds on the internet,

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Mat Kaplan gives his thoughts on the newest space film to hit theatres,

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Mat Kaplan reviews a wonderful new biography on Neil Armstrong, written with the support of Armstrong and many of the other pioneering astronauts.

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Watch another universe unfold as simulated by Illustris, using a model that required 8,000 processors running in parallels 3 months to create!

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Mat Kaplan checks an item off his bucket list: Seeing the aurora in Alaska.

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It's very nice to infer the existence of planets circling other stars. It's even better to see them. This new instrument has just become the most powerful exoplanet viewer yet created.

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NEOWISE has reawakened to discover many more asteroids and comets. The mission leader thanks the amateur astronomers who follow up on these discoveries.

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This week's show looks back over ten years of exploration by Spirit and Opportunity. Writer A.J.S. Rayl recounts the challenges encountered early in the mission, and how an outstanding team triumphed.

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Major revelations about our solar system at last week's AGU conference came from near and far. Emily Lakdawalla and Casey Dreier share a few, while Bill Nye salutes China's Chang'e 3 lunar lander and rover.

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Karl Battams of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign is our guest on this week's show. He explains how ISON really did become the comet of the century for scientists.

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This week's PlanRad talks to one of the creators of a new effort to build support for the Europa Clipper, a spacecraft that would tell us far more about what's going on under that icy moon's surface.

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An update on the Planetary Society's improved Optical SETI search, with Harvard's Paul Horowitz and Curtis Mead.

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Host Mat Kaplan will be joined by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts and Emily Lakdawalla for this special live event.