A topic of galactic proportions this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Andrew Benson builds galaxies

for a living. We'll visit his Caltech office to find out how and why. Emily Lachtoala

builds excitement. This week focused on how you may be able

to select a site on Mars to be imaged by the highest resolution camera

circling the red planet. She'll be here in a second or two.

Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy is at a spaceship factory with Planetary Society President

Jim Bell and former President Neil degrass Tyson.

And I'm in the freezing damp cold with Bruce Betts for this week's What's Up report, including

another chance to win a signed copy of William Hartman's Traveler's Guide to Mars.

Emily, congratulations on your second article in Sky and telescope and I guess now people can

see it online.

That's right. I wrote an article on the January issue on amateur imaging.

Amateur is downloading and processing digital space image data from unmanned spacecraft

and that article is now available for free

for download from their website. So we'll put up the link to that blog entry where you

also have an image one of several I guess that was assembled from images snapped by opportunity.

It's quite a pretty picture of the Martian landscape.

Yeah, that clouds over Mars picture always arrest people because it's, you know, the dead landscape of Mars the sort of frozen

sand seas and yet overhead there actually these clouds in motion across the sky it's

pretty cool speaking of taking pictures of Mars let's tell people how they can

take their own maybe if they're very fortunate with the best

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