Gene Cern and Laura Danley, Dan Durta and Mark Raymond, this week on Planetary Radio at Space

Fast. Fast. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

It's the annual gathering of space travelers, space

scientists, space artists, space vendors, and space geeks like yours truly.

We'll visit this year's Space Fest in Pasadena.

Bill Nye wants to share a statement on NASA's plan to redirect and visit an asteroid.

Later, Bruce Betts will take his lumps for the meteor shower that wasn't, and he'll help me give away

another little bit space kit on what's up.

Senior editor Emily Lockwala is just the first of today's great conversations.

Emily, a couple of new blog entries to talk about here.

Maybe we can deal with the first one pretty quickly and this is an opportunity to get a nice

view of our home planet.

Yeah, it's something called the High Definition Earth Viewing Experiment, which consists of four

high deaf video cameras bolted to the outside of the space station that automatically switch

between them and that's the nitty gritty of it but the cool thing is it's

high-def video from space all the time you can check it out pretty amazing of

course the cameras do spend half the time orbiting Earth in the dark just as you and I do. So it's not always the case that you can actually see Earth when you go check out this video. But when you do, it's just mesmerizing to sit there and watch the Earth spin below you.

So I checked it out a couple of moments ago, and even though it was a good... sit there people watching a gray screen. Well I suspect that a lot of people have it tuned as a

screen saver, you know, they just keep it on their computers all the time because when it's

showing man is it stunning. Can't blame them one bit. Let's talk about some

other stunning images. A new blog entry that you've done about stuff we're looking down on at Mars.

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