Ray Bradbury Bradbury, Mars Photographer, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm at Kaplan. Join us as we continue our special coverage of the International Conference on Mars

with this special event honoring the beloved author and playwright poet and visionary

Ray Bradbury.

We'll also hear from Arizona State's Phil Christensen,

designer and principal investigator for

the Themis Camera on Odyssey,

one of three active spacecraft orbiting Mars.

As you'll hear it was Phil and a colleague who asked Ray to choose a spot on the red planet he'd like to have imaged.

And what a choice he made.

Later on we'll get the latest on the night sky from Bruce Betts and give away another planetary

radio t-shirt.

Here's just a bit of what's going on around the solar system this week.

Saturn picked up yet another moon, or rather the Cassini's spacecraft found another that makes

60 satellites for the ring planet. There's a list at planetary.org.

The August launch of Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter will be pushed back so that repairs can be made.

Engineers discovered that a condenser had been installed backwards.

You've probably heard the biggest space story this week.

It takes us right back to Mars, where a duststorm has blanketed at least half the planet.

In place of her regular Q&A segment, we've asked the Planetary Society's Emily Lochuwala for a special

update on this latest challenge for spirit and opportunity.

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