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Explore "planetaryscience" with insightful episodes like "Mysteries of the Moon", "Planetary Scientists Are Excited About Uranus", "Extended Classic: Madame Saturn – A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 2)", "Cosmic Queries: Comets and Asteroids with Dr. Amy Mainzer" and "What's Exploration Worth?" from podcasts like ""NASA's Curious Universe", "Short Wave", "StarTalk Radio", "StarTalk Radio" and "StarTalk Radio"" and more!
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Planetary Scientists Are Excited About Uranus
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Extended Classic: Madame Saturn – A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 2)
Planetary scientist Dr. Carolyn Porco tells Neil about photographing Earth in the Pale Blue Dot and The Day the Earth Smiled and her involvement in Star Trek and Contact. Now including 12 minutes of Cosmic Queries with Neil, Bill Nye and Chuck Nice!
Cosmic Queries: Comets and Asteroids with Dr. Amy Mainzer
Curious about comets? Anxious about near-Earth asteroids? Join us as guest host Dr. Amy Mainzer from NASA/JPL answers your Cosmic Queries with a little help from comic co-host Chuck Nice.
What's Exploration Worth?
When the economy takes a downturn, should we still go up into space? NASA missions aren’t cheap—sending astronauts into low Earth orbit or to the Moon, sending robotic spacecraft to explore the planets, and launching telescopes into space can cost millions or even billions of dollars. Lou Friedman, director of the Planetary Society, argues that even when the dollar is dear, the quest to explore our universe is priceless.
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