Mining Asteroids and Skimming Europa this week on planetary Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes You to the Final Frontier and back to

Yuri's Night. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more from the

Los Angeles Edition of this year's worldwide celebration of space. We'll join the party with

Chris Lewicki, president and CEO of Planetary Resources, and a founder of

Uri's Night, then a conversation with two leaders of the team that will take us to Jupiter's

Ocean Moon, Bob Popolardo, and Bob Bauakfordousie.

Bill Nye and I are just back from Space Symposium in Colorado.

He'll tell us about that gathering, and we'll learn from

Bruce Betts about the first person to lose his lunch in space, right after he tells us

what's up in the night sky.

Grab your red-blue 3D glasses.

We're going for a ride with senior editor Emily

Lochuwala on the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

Emily, you published your regular curiosity update on the 13th of this month

looks like rough going for curiosity up there on Mars.

Yes, this last couple of months has been difficult driving for the rover, especially the last month.

They've been crossing this feature called the Nachlift Plateau.

And if you look at it from orbit, it looks like a set of parallel ridges.

And then when you get down and look at it at much higher

resolution still from orbit you can see that it's got a much rougher

texture than the rocks that are around it the much lighter colored Murray

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