Andy Weir of the Martian is back with his new book this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Andy's brand new book is called Artemis.

That's also the name of the city he has created on the moon

as the setting for this entertaining tale about a young woman named Jazz

who gets herself and her lunar village in a heap of trouble.

Later today, Bruce Betts and I will give you a chance to win a hardcover copy of Artemis.

It's just one of the prizes in the new space trivia contest.

Emily is back, not only on planetary radio but from the

DPS conference. One of your annual favorites, isn't it? That's right. DPS stands for Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical

Society, which tells you why they usually abbreviate it to DPS.

It happens every October in a different location, and it's the more astronomy focused of the two big

meetings that I attend every year the other one being the Lunar and

Planetary Science Conference which is more geology. Did you have your usual challenge

not knowing which of the many concurrent sessions to attend?

It's always a problem, but this year, you know, I found that it helps if I pick a theme and this year I was looking more at incremental

developments in science and seeing how people were making those little bits of

progress and sort of a process over actual science, although there certainly were good results.

Yeah, that's right. I think that, you know, meetings like this are where scientists talk about their

work in progress, they present what they're doing on a given problem, but the problems are definitely

not solved yet, and they're really at the conferences in part to have the opportunity

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