How Perseverance will look for life on Mars, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Strictly speaking, I should have said how perseverance will look for past life on the red planet. There's so much more to this

story though including how the study of ancient life on Earth is preparing us

for the quest on Mars. Ken Williford is deputy project scientists for the rover

mission that is now set to launch on or shortly after July 30th. He'll take us

inside perseverance and into his fantastic JPL lab.

We've also got two contests to finish this week,

along with your opportunity to win one of two

ultra-cool new planetary society t shirts.

Bruce Betts will also tell you how to see Comet Neowise.

With so much going on we'll make this week's dip into the downlink very brief.

Want to see how astronauts on the International Space Station caught the comet?

That's the lead image in the July 9 edition.

It's followed by headlines about the ongoing troubles of the

mole on the Mars Inside Lander. The next road trip for the Curiosity rover in Mars's

Gail crater and new findings of more metal on the moon than was thought to reside there.

You'll find lots of links to learn more about these and many other stories at planetary.org

slash Downlink.

Here's the word of the week.

Astro biogeochemistry.

More if you want to save time, ABC. It's the field and the opportunity that brought Ken Williford to the Jet Propulsion

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