Assessing the habitability of other worlds this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, Planets, they are everywhere, but can they support life?

And as Star Trek's data might say,

how can we narrow the search pattern?

Life falls. You tiny little life forms.

Your precious little life forms.

Where are you?

Astrobologist Dirk Schultz-Makach and his colleagues have come up with the analytical

tools data may need.

Our moon may not be teeming with life, but we're still learning about it, as you'll hear from Bill Nye.

And stay tuned for What's Up with Bruce Betts.

We've got a great new contest and a great prize for the winner, along with Bruce's usual

cosmic goodies. A quick visit with Emily Lock to Watch. along with

Emily Lochuwala will get us started.

Emily, happy new year.

Welcome back from Vacation.

I guess we're going to start seeing some new blog entries.

Yeah, I had a nice break, learned how to ski, and it was excellent, and I'm raring to go for

2012.

Good, didn't break your typing fingers.

So let's jump right into it with a couple of older entries that you had.

The most recent of these, December December 30th what is space exploration worth nice

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