Flying to the edge of space with your telescope this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Faith Vylus is preparing to turn her telescope on the sky,

but she hopes to do this above the sky.

We'll talk with her about the Planetary Science Institute's plan to mount a large telescope

on X-Corps sub-orbital space plane. As Faith dreams of observing above the clouds,

our Emily Lacowala actually shows us the clouds. Our Emily Lachowala actually shows us the clouds rolling

through the skies of Mars. Emily also introduces a rapper who has made the

periodic table his muse. Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, is back on board and

we'll wrap up with another tour of the night sky provided by Bruce Betts.

Emily, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on the blog and I can

congratulate you for it because you created it those Martian clouds. Well of

course I didn't create it the clouds were there and and Mars Express high resolution stereo camera saw them and then a

unmanned spaceflight.com member noticed them in the in the archive of HRSC data and another unmanned spaceflight.com member taught me how to do this video.

So it was really a long chain of help, but yeah, I have to admit, I kind of agree, I'm

I'm tweeting my own horn here, but I think it's pretty awesome looking.

And there's going to be a lot more of these videos of Martian clouds, dust storms rolling across the planet to come.

So you stand on the shoulders of giants I don't mind saying that but it is quite beautiful I'll see it again and you were using some new skills

That's right you know the the animation is made possible by the fact that the high resolution

stereo camera looks in numerous different directions across its orbit while it's orbiting

Mars, and so it images the same spot at slightly different times.

So it saw this spot on Mars where these clouds were a total of nine times at different

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