Podcast Episodes featuring Carolyn Porco

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A Passionate Conversation with Carolyn Porco

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science - November 13, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
The outspoken planetary scientist who led the Cassini imaging team finally sits down with Mat Kaplan for a revealing, fun conversation. We also talk with astronomer Jay Pasachoff while he watches tiny Mercury crawl across the face of the Sun. Chief scientist Bruce Betts was in the Planetary Soci...

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Listening for Aliens, with Carolyn Porco (Repeat)

StarTalk All-Stars - May 01, 2018 22:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Explore SETI and the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence ever, with host Carolyn Porco, co-host Chuck Nice, and Dan Werthimer, the Initiative’s principal investigator and SETI@home co-founder. Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars...

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Celebrating Voyager 1, with Carolyn Porco (Repeat)

StarTalk All-Stars - January 30, 2018 23:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Look back on one of the greatest accomplishments in human history, with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, co-host Maeve Higgins, Sean Ono Lennon and Emer Reynolds, filmmaker of the documentary, “The Farthest.” Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Subscribe on...

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Enceladus Up Close, with Carolyn Porco (Repeat)

StarTalk All-Stars - August 29, 2017 22:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Is the subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus the most likely place in our solar system to harbor life? Dive in with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, guest NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, and co-host Chuck Nice. Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Sub...

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Celebrating Voyager 1, with Carolyn Porco

StarTalk All-Stars - May 16, 2017 22:50 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Look back on one of the greatest accomplishments in human history, with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, co-host Maeve Higgins, Sean Ono Lennon and Emer Reynolds, filmmaker of the documentary, “The Farthest.” Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Subscribe on...

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Extended Classic: Science and Art, with Carolyn Porco

StarTalk All-Stars - April 11, 2017 22:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Carolyn Porco, “Bad-ass Science Groupie” Sean Ono Lennon, and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about art, science, and math. Now extended with more fan-submitted Cosmic Queries about astronaut music, the search for life, Saturn, and more! Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Sub...

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Inside the National Academy of Sciences, with Carolyn Porco

StarTalk All-Stars - January 24, 2017 23:50 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
What does the NAS do? Host Carolyn Porco, NAS Dir. Marcia McNutt, and Maeve Higgins explore how the NAS advises our government on fracking, gene splicing, self-driving cars, contacting aliens, and more. Plus, reflections on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers ...

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Science and Art, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

StarTalk Radio - October 11, 2016 22:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Carolyn Porco is back, and she’s brought her friend, “Bad-ass Science Groupie” Sean Ono Lennon. Together with Chuck Nice, they answer Cosmic Queries about art, science, and math; the Anthropocene Age; and the lack of civility on Twitter.

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Science and Art, with Carolyn Porco

StarTalk All-Stars - October 11, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Carolyn Porco is back, and she’s brought her friend, “Bad-ass Science Groupie” Sean Ono Lennon. Together with Chuck Nice, they answer Cosmic Queries about art, science, and math; the Anthropocene Age; and the lack of civility on Twitter.

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Enceladus Up Close, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

StarTalk Radio - September 06, 2016 22:52 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Is the subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus the most likely place in our solar system to harbor life? Dive in with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, guest NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, and co-host Chuck Nice.

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Enceladus Up Close, with Carolyn Porco

StarTalk All-Stars - September 06, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Is the subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus the most likely place in our solar system to harbor life? Dive in with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, guest NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, and co-host Chuck Nice.

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Listening for Aliens, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

StarTalk Radio - August 02, 2016 22:52 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Explore SETI and the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence ever, with host Carolyn Porco, co-host Chuck Nice, and Dan Werthimer, the Initiative’s principal investigator and SETI@home co-founder.

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Listening for Aliens, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

StarTalk All-Stars - August 02, 2016 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 447 ratings
Explore SETI and the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence ever, with host Carolyn Porco, co-host Chuck Nice, and Dan Werthimer, the Initiative’s principal investigator and SETI@home co-founder.

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Extended Classic: Madame Saturn – A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 2)

StarTalk Radio - October 23, 2015 22:55 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
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!

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Extended Classic: Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 1)

StarTalk Radio - July 05, 2015 22:55 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about exploring space with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, a.k.a. Madame Saturn, who led the Cassini Imaging Science team. Now including 10 minutes of new Cosmic Queries with Neil, Bill Nye and Chuck Nice!

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362: Carolyn Porco

Astronomy Cast - January 05, 2015 00:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
AstronomyCast 362: Carolyn Porco by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

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Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 2)

StarTalk Radio - July 05, 2014 17:28 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
We’ve saved the best for last as Carolyn tells Neil about photographing Earth in the Pale Blue Dot and The Day the Earth Smiled and her involvement in Star Trek and Contact.

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Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 1)

StarTalk Radio - June 29, 2014 04:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about exploring space with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, aka Madame Saturn, leader of the Cassini Imaging Science team.

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The Human Journey with Dr. Carolyn Porco

TheThinkingAtheist - June 18, 2014 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Dr. Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist known for her work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.  She leads the imaging scientist team on the Cassini mission currently in orbit around Saturn.  She’s also involved with the New Horizons mission...

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14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters

Inquiring Minds - December 27, 2013 04:02 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
On Valentine's Day 1990, from more than four billion miles away, the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped our photo. From that distance, there wasn't much to see; the resulting shot simply showed several light beams with a tiny speck in one of them. Earth. But that didn't stop the late celebrity astron...