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The best geologist on Mars with Dr. Francis
Episode 101
Dr. Raymond Francis talks about a rock-vaporizing laser and the software that controls it. He describes how he and colleagues programmed a computer t…
9 years, 1 month ago
The gauntlet is thrown- explain the ammonia! with Dr. Ehlmann
Episode 100
Dr. Bethany Ehlmann returns to talk about Ceres. She tells us what certain types of silicates have in common with phyllo dough, and explains how trac…
9 years, 1 month ago
Photons from exoplanets with Dr. Meshkat
Episode 99
Dr. Tiffany Meshkat describes direct imaging of exoplanets, which astronomers have used to discover enormous, young planets. She also talks about WFI…
9 years, 2 months ago
A place on Earth as dry as Mars with Dr. Azua-Bustos
Episode 98
Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos talks about how he discovered the driest place on Earth— a region in the Atacama Desert not far from where he grew up. He exp…
9 years, 2 months ago
If a glacier falls in a fjord… with Dr. Koppes
Episode 97
Dr. Michele Koppes stops by to talk about her glacier research on planet Earth. She describes how a melting glacier triggered a staggeringly large la…
9 years, 2 months ago
Vega, dust, and a giant inflatable bumblebee with Dr. Ciardi
Episode 96
Dr. David Ciardi talks about Vega, a bright star that's "been a part of human lore forever." Dr. Ciardi and his colleagues discovered that Vega has a…
9 years, 2 months ago
Asteroid hunting software with John Dailey
Episode 95
John Dailey explains how he uses his software engineering skills to discover asteroids at IPAC/Caltech. He helps solve problems inherent to working w…
9 years, 3 months ago
Seven hundred new craters on Mars with Dr. Daubar
Episode 94
Dr. Ingrid Daubar stops by to talk about HiRISE, a camera on a Mars-orbiting spacecraft that takes amazing images of the Martian surface. She explain…
9 years, 3 months ago
Companionable Jupiters with Marta Bryan
Episode 93
Marta Bryan shares her new results on exoplanets! She explains how she tested a theory of hot jupiter formation, and how she figured out that planet …
9 years, 3 months ago
When there's dust there's planets with Dr. Patel
Episode 92
Dr. Rahul Patel describes his search for undiscovered disks of dust around other stars. He explains how looking for fainter and fainter debris disks …
9 years, 3 months ago