The greatest planetary scientists gather in Reno, Nevada this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, great science, and lots of it.

That's what could be found at the 44th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences,

part of the American Astronomical Society.

I was there with Emily Lockawalup to talk with many of the attendees.

Today you'll get a taste of this great conference,

beginning with a quick recap from Emily.

Emily, the only thing about TPS that I'm unhappy about... with a quick recap from Emily.

Emily, the only thing about TPS that I'm unhappy about is that I couldn't spend as much time there as you.

You were there all week, weren't you?

I was there the whole week, and I wish even I could have split myself into three people to cover the three concurrent sessions that were happening in the mornings.

There were literally hundreds of these 10 minute presentations to say nothing of, I'm sure, a couple of hundred posters.

Yeah it's an awful lot of science and you know meetings like this are a lot of

scientists telling you about incremental progress on work that they've been doing

for a really long time and so it's always really cool to see how things get a little bit more precise a little bit more definite with time sometimes though a little bit less definite.

It's also nice to see what a what a part of the community you are really a few people know about

planetary radio more than a few but everybody knows you and your blog yeah that they do it's

really quite gratifying actually the number of scientists who come up to me and say,

I like to read your blog because I can keep up with the stuff only in my narrow part of the field.

I use your blog to keep up with everything else in planetary science.

So there's no possible way for us to capture it all here in the minute or two that we have left.

But was there a standout finding among these hundreds of examples of terrific science.

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