Sometimes you don't have to go to space to go to space 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. Would you live in a simulated

spacecraft habitat for a month, cut off from friends, family, and gulp the net. I bet you would and

Julie Lynn Wong did. She'll tell us about her NASA adventure, her 3D printing

for space medicine and much more.

Bill Nye celebrates the return of an astronaut and the launch of a spacecraft built by kids.

Later Bruce Betts will join us for another What's Up tour of the night sky.

Emily Loch Duwala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.

Emily, we didn't get to talk about it last week, so we're a little bit into March now but I think we

should still bring up your look forward your what's up in the solar system for

March let's start at Mars where I guess it's winter for a lot of the stuff down on the ground

That's right because both of the rovers are in the southern hemisphere

It's winter in Mars's southern hemisphere right now and it's pretty much the depths of winter. The solstice has happened back in January, which means that opportunity in particular is moving very slowly, but still getting fantastic views off the rim of Endeavor Crater down into Marathon Valley.

I'm doing little bits of science here and there

while perched on a crazy angle tilted toward the north,

catching sunlight that's coming in from a more northern angle

since it's winter there.

Curiosity is a little less affected by the weather. from northern angle since it's winter there.

Curiosity is a little less affected by the weather,

although curiosity still has to warm the actuators,

the motors before driving.

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