That great American Eclipse this week on planetary radio.

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

solar system and beyond. More of our special coverage of the cosmic event that

will happen on Monday, August 21st, rain or shine.

We'll go to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to hear about that school's very public

plans, and then we'll hear from two of the people behind the Eclipse Mega Movie.

Everyone you'll hear hopes you'll join the celebration.

How many worlds have we discovered around the Milky Way?

Bruce Betts will share the mind-blowing total on what's up.

And now something we've all been looking forward to for weeks.

Senior editor Emily Loch Duala has returned.

Emily, it has been far too long. Welcome back. Thank you, Matt. to about the Curiosity Rover. But what we're going to talk about for the next two or three minutes

is this little event related to the planet Saturn.

Tell us about, I don't know, was it a celebration?

It was a celebration, I guess.

It was an event to mark a very important and significant

event in the lifetime of the Cassini Project, which was the very first time that Cassini dived between

Saturn's rings and the planet. It had all the trappings of a usual kind of JPL event where people were

waiting for the signal from the spacecraft.

In actuality, there really wasn't any doubt that the spacecraft was going to survive this passage.

These people understand their spacecraft very well.

They've learned a lot about Saturn. They knew how the spacecraft

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