The Tale of the Mole, a Martian science Odyssey, this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome, I'm Ed Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across

our solar system and beyond.

Today, a story that is heartbreaking, heroic, and inspiring, brought to us by Troy Hudson

of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

Troy was with us when the Insight Mars Lander reached the Red Planet, and we had every reason

to believe he'd returned to celebrate the success of the heat flow and physical properties

package, or HP-cubed instrument, more fondly known as the Mole.

Space is hard, and Mars is harder, but lessons have been learned.

Troy will also tell us about the exciting projects keeping him busy since work with the

Mole ended.

It wasn't designed to do this, but the Parker Solar Probe has somehow peered through

the thick cloud surrounding Venus to reveal some murky surface features below.

That's the space snapshot that leads this week's edition of the Down Lake, the Planetary

Society's free newsletter.

Just below that image are these space headlines.

October of this year will be a busy month for a space exploration.

The Lucy mission will launch toward Jupiter and six Trojan asteroids that share the big

world's orbit, and the James Webb Space Telescope has passed more tests on the way to its

October departure.

I bet a lot of you watched the triumphant March 3rd flight and vertical landing of yet another

SpaceX spaceship.

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