A daring plunge

plunge into an alien atmosphere this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Venus Express survived that dip into the thick air of Venus

and is still doing its job.

We'll talk with Hokan's Feedham, the probes justifiably proud project scientist.

Bill Nye will join us from halfway around this world,

and Bruce Betts braves the thick with humidity atmosphere

of Southern California to join me for a what's up segment with a couple of special

Mars rover prizes. We begin with a very excited Emily Lochuwala who has been

following the Rosetta Mission. Emily there really is a lot to be excited about out at that comet.

It's always thrilling to see a strange new world for the first time and Comet Churyamov-Garasemeka is really coming into view finally.

And we're seeing all kinds of awesome features

that remind me a lot of things that we've seen on other comets like the circular features

that we saw on Temple 1 and so it's really cool to see how this comet is a combination

of lots of things that we're familiar with and yet

taken altogether it's such a bizarre and different world.

You've just written this blog entry as we speak, August 4th, entry about the circular features. I guess that's just the beginning much more to come

absolutely and things are going to be changing very rapidly over the next few days is

Rosetta is going to be entering sort of in orbit around the comet basically

stationkeeping about a hundred kilometers away from the surface.

We're just going to see this thing from all sides and try to puzzle out what's made at strange features.

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