Author Kim Stanley Robinson takes us to the year 2312 this week on planetary radio. time 300 years into humanity's future. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

In his new novel 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson shares his vision of a brave new solar system that is chock full of humanity.

He'll tell us about it in a special extended podcast conversation.

Bill Nye is back to share congratulations for SpaceX with its Falcon 9 and Dragon

capsule now a full-fledged transportation system and Bruce Betts will tell us

about the Sky Wonders still in store over the next couple of weeks.

We'll start with Planetary Society blogger Emily Lachto-Wala.

Emily welcome back, looking over the blog.

It sure is nice to see this in the brand new website. It is especially good for Multimedia. Good

place to watch this video that you collected from a student all about Saturn.

Yeah, that's right. Not only did I collect it from a student, but I only heard about it because somebody told me about it on Twitter so there's a lot of social media going on here it's a lovely video it uses a device that I have to admit I use an awful lot which is basically just gathering a lot of Cassini's images from many sequences and just running them together in an animation. It's kind of like a digital flipbook. But this one is an especially nice job and he's he put the moonlight

sonata to it and then the way that the video moves and changes it just really in

rhythm with the music and it's it's quite impressive and and you just can't help but watch it all the way through to the end.

Yeah I especially like the the interpretation of the music one of your commenters said the rough and aggressive

interpretation of the Moonlight Sonata.

It really works.

It's quite lovely to watch.

What's interesting about this is that, yes, you've got your blog entries, but we seem to have a real growth spurt lots of other guest

bloggers joining in at planetary.org yeah that's something that the new website has

really allowed me to do with the old one it was it was hard to

feature too many guest bloggers without losing me in the whole in the shuffle but this way the way

that we've we've managed to actually really feature all the different kinds of authors that we have.

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