The prospects for habitability on insolidus keep getting better, this week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Alhamed of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Phosphorus, a key ingredient for life as we know it, has been discovered on Saturn's Moon

Insolidus. This is the first time that Phosphorus has been detected in an ocean off of Earth.

Chris Gline, a lead scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, joins us this week to talk

about the discovery and its implications for the search for life.

Then Bruce Betts will pop in to share what's up in the night sky this week.

And now for some space news. NASA has announced a new project to investigate volcanic terrain

on the Moon. Artemis' cadence of robotic lunar missions will include a new scientific

payload called Dimple, which stands for Dating an Irregular Mara Patch with a Lunar Explorer.

It's going to study the Inna Irregular Mara Patch, which is an area of hilly terrain

created by volcanic activity on the near side of the Moon.

And China's plans for a moon landing are coming together.

The China Man Space Agency recently announced a more formalized set of plans to land a pair

of astronauts on the surface of the Moon before the end of the decade.

The mission would involve separately launching a crewed spacecraft and the lander segments,

which would rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit before landing on the lunar surface.

The agency is also calling for proposals for science payloads to travel with the lunar

lander.

And in uh-oh news, the US Senate has warned that if NASA's Mars sample return campaign

can't stay on budget, it may be cancelled altogether.

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