A astronomy cast episode 493 updates about Mars.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we

help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today with me as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, the director

of Technology, Citizen Science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the Director of

Cosmic Question.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Great, I don't know if I mentioned this last week but I'm going to mention this again

which is that we have a book, The Universe Today's Complete Guide to Viewing the Cosmos and

we have a cover by Robert Gendler and we have a link on Amazon if you want to preorder

the book.

And I owe you a forward.

And it's going to have a forward from Dr. Pamela Gay so at some point that forward will

exist.

Maybe that's why I'm just announcing this is that I just read a note.

There we go that you remember to write your forward but the publishing date is in October,

October 23rd I believe.

So I'm really excited and we're still trying to sort of find space for more amateur astrophotos

to put into the book, nagging all of the photographers that we know.

So that's the hope is it's going to be tons and tons of pictures that nobody's ever

seen.

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