From the Starlight Festival in Big Bear Lake California, this is planetary radio.

Welcome to the travel show that brings you to the final frontier. This is Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society

sitting outdoors at the Starlight Festival in Big Bear Lake,

the first of its kind in this stunningly beautiful location where in a few short hours it will

be dark and people will be looking through

telescopes. Well this is a radio show so we won't be doing that but we will in a few

moments talk with our most frequent guest over all the years that we've done

this radio show that has been on the air only a

little bit longer than Kacini has been in space. That's Linda Spilker, the

Project Scientist for Kacini. Up first though, we're going to listen in to Emily Loch Duwala, our senior editor, and then to

Bill Nye, the CEO of the Planetary Society. But I'll be back in a couple of minutes here with

Linda Spilker. Emily, just time for a quick update, a little bit of a tease for a couple of your latest blog entries this time,

beginning with something new from Deep Impact or really not all that new.

Well, it's not all that new, but this is the way the data archiving works.

The very, very last data that the Deep Impact spacecraft took before it tragically went

missing August of last year has finally hit the planetary data system which is the the public archive that NASA uses to share all science results from all its space missions with the world.

I went in there I got the notification from the PDS that the data

were available and I went in there and I found the very last images that Deep Impact took

which were of the Comet Ison which was still several astronomical units away so it's not the most impressive

photo it's it's just a smudge but deep impact was the very first spaceborn

imager to actually take any photos of Comet Ison.

So it's sort of a poignant image, not the greatest Astra photo,

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