An escapade on, or rather above, Mars, this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Yes, we've got yet another visit to the Red Planet for you.

The twist is that escapade, the escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, are

budgeted far below a typical NASA Mars mission.

We'll talk with Principal Investigator Robert Lillis of UC Berkeley about how his twin

spacecraft will help us understand the torturous evolution of that world.

Bruce Betts is anxiously waiting in the wings with a night sky update, one of my favorite

space history events, a random space fact, and a new space trivia contest.

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And if you've already done this, thank you.

Bad news reported in the September 3rd edition of The Downlink.

We learned a few days ago that Carolyn Schumaker had passed away.

Carolyn and her husband Jean worked steadily for many years, discovering hundreds of asteroids

and 32 comets.

One of those comets would get the name Schumaker-Levy 9.

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