Drifting on alien winds this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan at the Planetary Society.

Michael Carroll is an extraordinary space. I'm Matt Kaplan at the Planetary Society.

Michael Carroll is an extraordinary space artist.

I'll talk with him in a few minutes about his new beautifully illustrated book

about the atmospheres and climates of worlds throughout our solar system.

I learned a lot from it, just as I learned from Emily Lautowala each week.

Emily, where are you?

I'm in Plano, Texas visiting family on my way to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston next week.

And that's something you've attended pretty regularly, a pretty exciting event?

Many times before. It's definitely my favorite meeting of the year. It's the biggest meeting of planetary geologists as opposed to planetary astronomers, which is the DPS division of planetary sciences meeting that happens in October.

But this is all my friends are here, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Well, great. I hope we can get a more thorough report after the fact from you next week.

Let's talk about another visit you made much more locally here in Southern California to this company called Honeybee robotics.

And this was the day before I made a similar visit to a small contractor doing terrific things.

Yeah, I was really excited actually about this opportunity to visit Honeybee.

I hadn't even realized that they'd set up an office in Pasadena.

Their main office is in New York, but I knew about them because they had produced the rock

abrasion tool on the Mars Exploration Rovers.

That's the drill and brush that they used to get into rocks to be able to sample the actual

composition of the rocks.

And it turns out they're responsible for every rock drill that's ever

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