Gravity Assist

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Season 2, Episode 5: Asteroid Hunting with Lindley Johnson Jul 17, 2018

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NASA has been on the lookout for any asteroid that could cause our planet harm and, in the thousands of objects found, determined that none poses a threat to Earth.

Season 2, Episode 4: Exploring Mars with Steve Squyres Jul 03, 2018

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NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers were only supposed to rove around Mars for 90 days. Listen in with Steve Squyers from Cornell University as he recounts the amazing discoveries we’ve made about the Red Planet because of these two long-lived rovers.

Season 2, Episode 3: Mars and InSight with Bruce Banerdt May 02, 2018

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With its seismometer and heat probe instruments, InSight will investigate the deep dynamics of Mars, helping scientists discover what lies within its core and learn more about how rocky bodies form throughout the solar system.

Season 2, Episode 2: TESS & Exoplanets with Martin Still Apr 12, 2018

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On Monday, April 16th, NASA is scheduled to launch its newest exoplanet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Season 2, Episode 1: Explorer 1 with Jim Green Mar 01, 2018

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The year was 1958; the space race was on. NASA’s first space satellite, Explorer 1, launched a Geiger counter and miniature tape recorder into space that registered astonishingly high radiation levels above Earth. This discovery gave humanity its first glimpse of the Van Allen radiation belts, named for James Van Allen.

Season 1, Episode 12: Science and Science Fiction with Andy Weir Feb 07, 2018

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NASA’s Jim Green and bestselling author Andy Weir explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Kuiper Belt with Alan Stern Jan 31, 2018

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In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern about what we’ve learned about Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.

Gravity Assist Podcast, Pluto with Alan Stern Jan 24, 2018

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In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute about what the July 2015 flyby of Pluto revealed about this mysterious and diverse world.

Season 1, Episode 9: Uranus and Neptune with Amy Simon Jan 17, 2018

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n this episode of Gravity Assist, NASA’s Jim Green and Amy Simon discuss Uranus, Neptune, and Neptune’s intriguing moon – Triton -- and what we still have to learn about these mysterious bodies.

Season 1, Episode 8: Saturn with Linda Spilker Jan 10, 2018

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With me today is Dr. Linda Spilker from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's the project scientist for our Cassini Mission, which as everyone knows, had a recent spectacular finale at Saturn.

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