Exploring Venus, hopping probes, and leaping robots.

This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Al-Ahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

This week, we're back with part two of our special coverage from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Symposium, a place where today's wildest ideas may become tomorrow's missions.

We'll start off with Mary Knapp, a research scientist at MIT Haystack Observatory,

whose great observatory for long

wavelengths could open an entirely new window onto exoplanets by studying radio waves that are

too long to detect from Earth's surface.

Then Michael Hecht, also from MIT Haystack, and principal investigator for the Moxie experiment

on NASA's Perseverance Rover

shares how his team's exploring Venus with electrolysis concept could turn the planet's dense

atmosphere into fuel for flight and scientific discovery. We'll also hear from Benjamin Hockman,

robotics technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose Venus

Balloon Observatory concept and Gravity Popper's asteroid probes could change how we explore

our planetary neighbors.

And finally, Justin Yim, assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

He'll take us to Saturn's Moon Enceladus, where his team's legged exploration across the plume,

or leap robot, could literally hop through the icy geysers to learn about the world's subsurface

ocean. Then we'll check in with Bruce Betts, chief scientist at the Planetary Society for

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