Focusinger Peter Mayer gets it. The Cosmos, that is, this week on planetary radio.

I'm standing on a... this week on planetary radio.

I'm standing on a planet breathing in the atmosphere.

Waves vibrating in the air beating on my ears. Welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society and that's Peter Mayer's song

Ordinary Day. We'll talk with Peter and hear more of his music of the

spheres on this special edition of our show, along with all our regular features, I'll also tell

you how to get one of Peter's songs for free.

First up is Planetary Society Science and Technology Coordinator Emily Emily Lockpihuahua.

Emily was a busy, busy week in the Planetary Society blog, reports from the Lunar and

Planetary Science Conference, also the last landing of discovery, but we really should talk a little

bit about the earthquake in Japan and we can do that I think because you are a geologist are we just lucky to have such a

lively planet well I suppose it is a form of luck that we have a planet that's so

geologically active that it has the internal heat sources and it

rejuvenates its landscape in the way the Earth does but of course it has these

terrible effects on the people and creatures living on its surface and we saw that in Japan

fortunately the Japanese are very good with their engineering, their modeling of

earthquakes, they're the nations that that has advanced the study of

geophysics and tectonics so greatly that they've been able to

engineer for these things and it's amazing that the loss of life wasn't more than it was, but

it's always pretty terrifying to hear those reports, especially when you feel personal connections

to a place as I do with all of the reporting

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