ALIENS with Dr. Kevin Peter Hand

ALIENS! EXTRATERRESTRIALS! MARTIANS! The phenomenal Dr. Kevin Peter Hand of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory dishes on the oceans of distant moons, methane rivers, ice crusts, the James Webb Space Telescope findings, what might be out there, aliens, what elements a planet needs to sustain life, and how finding extraterrestrial microbes would change the way we see life on this here tiny blue dot in space.

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Dr. Kevin Peter Hand's book Alien Oceans: the Search for Life in the Depths of Space

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Donations went to Traveling Telescope & Vermont's Manchester Rescue Squad

Full-length (*not* G-rated) Astrobiology episode + tons of science links

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Sound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of Mind Jam Media & Steven Ray Morris