It's time to grab your cosmic guidebook. We're setting off on a journey across space,

this week on Planetary Radio. I'm Sarah Al-Ahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of

of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

What if you could flip open a travel guide and set off, not to Paris or Denver, but to Saturn's

hexagon, the icy oceans of Europa, or the craters of Mercury? This week I sit down with

adjunct scientist at the Mox Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, Mark McCorkrin.

He'll talk about his new book, 111 places in space that you must not miss, your portal to the universe.

It's a cosmic tour guide filled with breathtaking images, wild stories from missions like Hubble and Rosetta,

and a reminder of why our

home planet still matters most. We'll take a journey across the solar system and explore how

imagination and science meet space storytelling. Then we'll check in with Bruce Betts, our chief

scientist, for another installment of What's Up, as Bruce talks about the next two installments

of our planetary book

series for kids, one of which is out now. If you love planetary radio and want to stay informed

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ways to know the cosmos and our place within it.

Before we get into our cosmic tour, I want to take a moment for some breaking space news.

Last week, NASA announced that a rock core collected by the Perseverance rover and Jesro Crater

may contain a potential biosignature,

a chemical pattern that could point to ancient microbial life on Mars.

The sample, which is nicknamed Sapphire Canyon, was drilled from a rock called Cheava Falls

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