Sun dials, seti and dark skies, this week on planetary radio. Radio. takes you really should see Woody Sullivan's resume. No time?

Then stay tuned for our delightful conversation with the University of Washington

astronomer whose interests run from searching for E.T. to designing

sundials for a cloudless day on Mars.

Emily Lachawala will get all moony on us in Q&A and later Bruce Betts will become Particle Man right before our ears.

Here's a review of all the news from around the solar system and beyond.

Really, every bit of it.

Remember our conversation with the European Space Agency's Gerhard Newcomb?

Gerhard expressed some worry about whether the ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Mars Express

orbiter would deploy and work successfully.

Well, so far so good.

A 20 meter or 65 foot long boom has been deployed with two more waiting for the command to unfold.

Read more about how the experiment will look for subsurface Martian water at planetary.org.

You think you've got computer problems.

Commander Sergei Krikelev and flight engineer John Phillips have finished their first month on the

international space station, where at least four laptop computers are

acting up. One had a corrupted hard disk, two don't boot up properly and another

well just kind of sits there. Don't worry too much they have spares but I wonder if NASA opted for the on-site

extended care package.

Hello, Dell Service Department, can you come right over?

I mean up. Apollo 17 Mission Commander

Jean Cernan has received the first Ambassador of Exploration Award from NASA. He and Harrison

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