A Human Voyage to Mars in Our Time, this week on Planetary Radio.

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

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, a busy show as we welcome back

Chris Carberry, CEO of Explore Mars Incorporated.

First though, we'll check in with Emily and then get an exciting Light Sale solar sale update from Embedded reporter Jason Davis.

You may have heard that Light Sale is back in business after eight nail-biting days when it wasn't talking.

We'll wrap up with Bruce Bats and some very entertaining contest entries, really, and I've

got news for our London area listeners at the end of the show.

Emily Larkowala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.

Emily, there is so much going on with the planetary science missions, many of them

still to come in the years ahead.

Let's go through some of these, and if you would, begin with the selection of instruments

for the Europa Mission just last week.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited to see instrument selection going forward for this mission, which will be the next

great outer planets mission.

There are three different imaging instruments.

My favorite, of course, being the biggest camera.

It's being developed by Elizabeth Turtle at the Applied Physics Laboratory, and it's going to be absolutely amazing the photos that this thing can take of Jupiter and its moons.

But I'm also excited because three out of the nine principal investigators on the Europa Mission Instruments are women, which is pretty close to their representation in science careers in in space science.

So it's pretty nice to see that.

There's also possibly the youngest principal investigator on any NASA instrument ever that's Joe

Westlake also at APL so it's it was a pretty good week for APL.

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