Movie maker James Cameron searches for alien life under the ocean this week on planetary radio.

Hi everyone, welcome back to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the stars or in this week's show on a voyage to the bottom of the sea.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

It turns out that one of the most successful filmmakers of all time is even more excited about

questions we frequently talk about on this show.

Is there life out there?

If so, what will it look like?

And where are we most likely to find it?

Lacking the ability to take us to the oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa,

Cameron's new film looks beneath the waters of our own planet.

Our conversation with him is just a few minutes away.

Later we'll get some dry humor from Bruce Betts

as we learn what's up in our skies

and hear his latest space trivia question.

We'll begin with this quick review of the news from beyond our pale blue dot

in space. The biggest news is still coming from a billion miles away on Saturn's Moon

Titan. Scientists are shaking their heads in amazement over the three and a half

hours of data returned by the Huygens probe. There is an extensive update at planetary.org, including

many more images and even a movie of sorts that traces the descent

and landing of the little spacecraft.

More new sounds of Titan too.

Apparently not wanting the outer solar system to steal all the

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