2009 Aug 24. Looking for ET. KPCC radio Airtalk program. Guests: Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View and James Fanson, Project Manager for the Kepler telescope.

2009 Aug 20, 11:00 am. Panel Interview on the Diane Rehm show:
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life including guests from the Kepler Science Team: Jill Tarter, Jon Jenkins, Alan Boss.

2009 May 13. JPL podcast - Kepler: Are There Other Earths Out There? - 4 mb MP3.

2009 Feb 28. Kepler Mission -- interview with Kepler Deputy PI David Koch on Quirks & Quarks (CBC-Canadian Broadcast Centre).

Dr. Janice Voss (NASA Ames Research Center): "A Scientist in Space" and "Searching for Earth-like Planets: NASA's Kepler Mission"
March 7, 2007. Silicon Valley Lecture series.

Podcast (mp3 file, 8.7 MB)

Dr. Voss, who has logged 49 days in space (traveling almost 19 million miles in 779 Earth orbits) discusses her work in space and what it's like flying on the Shuttle as a scientist. She then talks about NASA's upcoming Kepler mission, which will use a telescope in space to search for "transits" -- when a planet orbiting another star moves in front of its star and blocks its light. Although a planet might only block a tiny fraction of the light from a star, that decrease in brightness is enough to give a clear signal that the planet is there. With this mission, scientists hope to be able to find not only Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets, but also those as small as Earth. At the end, Dr. Voss answers a number of audience questions about both aspects of her work.

Night Sky Network Conference Dec 2005 with Janice Voss: