Approaching Pluto, Pluto, and naming a planet after your dog, 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.

Alan Stern is back.

He'll tell us how he and his team will keep the New Horizons spacecraft

from running into anything unexpected

when it reaches Pluto.

He'll also ask you if you Uwingu. It's his new company that raises

money for space exploration as it lets you suggest names for new planets. Bruce Betz has a couple of invitations to share and Bill Nye is

wondering with the rest of us what curiosity has found on Mars. First up is

Emily Loch Duwala. Welcome back, Emily.

We're talking today about some stuff that as we speak is not quite up yet on the blog at planetary.org,

but we'll be probably by the time people hear this and well worth looking at. What is this

image from Curiosity that you plan to post? The Curiosity team like the rest of us

didn't work much at the end of last week because it was a Thanksgiving holiday

but what they had done was they gave Curiosity much at the end of last week because it was a Thanksgiving holiday.

But what they had done was they gave curiosity a three-day plan of things to do while they

were all eating turkey.

And one of those things was this amazing mosaic that shows the new area that they have recently driven to.

It's down into the area called Glenelg, which is where that light-colored rock is that they're so interested in checking out.

And this, it's just a geologist paradise. There is nothing but bedrock as far as the eye can see. And what

bedrock is, it's rock that's in the same place, at the same position it was in when it first

formed. So you have all the context you need to understand

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