As IBM downloaded SETI at home, we'll find out on planetary radio. Radio.

Hi everyone and welcome back to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

David Anderson is project director for SETI at home,

the five-year-old project that has turned

five million personal computers into the world's largest supercomputer.

David will join us later to contrast his effort with the world community grid just

announced by IBM.

We'll also drop in on a ceremony honoring the Space ship one and Mars

Rover teams among others and Bruce Betts will be here with the winner of our

rename the NASA Administrator Contest.

Here are some space headlines to get us started.

It's probably one of the most beautiful images ever taken from space.

The just released true color image of Saturn's rings with the great cold planet itself in the background is just one of thousands returned by Kacini.

You can see it and many others at planetary dot o'r g

speaking of Cassini its small companion the Huygens probe

is now just days away from the release that will send it plunging

toward cloudy titan you can read an interview with John Zarncky, principal investigator

for the Huygens Science Surface Package of Instruments at our website. And NASA has proudly

announced that after rigorous peer review, 11 formal papers by

122 authors have been published in the December 3rd issue of Science magazine.

Topics survey the major findings by the Mars rover teams in the first three months of their

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