The deepest ever snapshot of our universe, this week on planetary radio.

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

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It's called the Extreme Deep Field and it took 10 years

of Hubble Space Telescope images to create it.

Astronomer Garth Illinworth is here to tell us more.

Bill Nye is on his way home from the International Bonnier Garth Ellingworth is here to tell us more.

Bill Nye is on his way home from the International Astronautical Congress in Italy.

He'll rejoin us next week.

But Bruce Betts is here as always, this time to help me give away a telescope and we're also joined by

senior editor and planetary evangelist Emily Lochuwala. Emily great to have you back

with another update on curiosity the particular entry that I'm looking at was from the 4th of October

and Curiosity staying very busy 60 or so days into its mission.

Yeah, and of course it's kind of surprising to people that the pace of this mission

is it's both fast and slow in a way.

They've already driven 400 meters and yet they haven't finished commissioning all the instruments

and that's the activity that they're working on right now is they are doing their very first ever scoop sample of soil from this sand drift called rock nest.

Before that sample was taken and it may have been taken by the time people hear this show, check

the blog and you'll be able to see Emily's report on it.

It had pulled up to this little tiny drift, tiny sand dune, and left a footprint.

That's called a scuff, and it's something that all previous

rovers on Mars have done.

Basically, all you do is lock five of the wheels

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