How you will see the universe as never before 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 and we've got another packed half hour for you.

In a few moments you'll hear from the maker of a soon to premiere IMAX movie that will knock

your socks off.

First though we'll talk with the Planetary Society

Science and Technology Coordinator Emily Lochuwala. Emily I suspect you would like to

stick with just talking about you know real science and we're going to get to that

but you do have a blog entry

about Phobos grunt which by the time people hear this may have made its way

back down somewhere on our planet.

Yeah, and it seems to fall to me to follow the second to second updates on missions like this

one because I seem to be better at using Google Translate to read foreign language documents and a lot of other people. Anyway, yeah,

Phobos Grunt is coming down by the time you listen to this, it's probably going to be down

and it's a very sad thing for a lot of people. There's a lot of people worried

of course about a spacecraft falling out of the sky and there's all kinds of predictions.

It's going to fall in Afghanistan. No, it's going to be the Indian Ocean. No, it's going to be somewhere else.

We just don't know and we won't know until just a few hours before the event.

So stay tuned to my, or I guess you should already have read my Twitter account to find

out what finally actually happened.

In all likelihood it crashed in the middle of the ocean and nobody saw it but we'll see.

All right, let's do get back to real science and our friend Mark Raymond of the Dawn mission,

which has seen some very impressive successes out there at Vesta.

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