Chasing the Solar Systems Volcanoes this week on planetary radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan. And boy do we ever have a hot show for

you this time. Planetary scientist Rosalie Lopez is here with both of her new books about

volcanoes,

which are turning up just about everywhere in the solar system,

even though some of them are freezing cold.

We've got lots more in store,

including the latest space trivia quiz from Bruce Betts.

Here's the latest news from around the Milky Way.

The Bush administration wants Mike Griffin to be the next NASA administrator.

Griffin currently heads the space division of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab,

but he has very broad experience throughout NASA.

We'll have more to say next week, but you can also read all about the choice right now at

planetary.org.

Cassini has had another close encounter with one of Saturn's moons.

This time it was strangely smooth Enceladus.

Lots of great snapshots are on the website.

And another interplanetary mission has just visited that mysterious and dangerous place called Earth.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft swung by our pretty little home picking

up speed on its way to orbit and land on a

comet. Did you wave as it passed by? Next up, Emily is also examining Earth. She

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