Thanks to our guest, Mars has never looked better. This is planetary radio. Radio. look like if you were standing on its surface?

Well, we know the answer to that question for the first time, thanks to the Pan-Cam

on the Mars Exploration Rovers.

We'll talk to Jim Bell, the Pan-Cam Man on today's show.

Bruce Betz returns with another trivia contest in What's Up,

and we'll relive Astrobot Sandy Mundus's

heroine experience in the first ever automobile accident on Mars.

Let's start by checking in with one of the last student astronauts at JPL.

I'll be right back. Hi, I'm Millie. I'm from England. I'm 17 years old and I'm one of the last student astronauts. I must admit that I found the most fascinating thing to do here at JPL was actually just to watch what the scientists were doing

because they're working on the images and they're discussing.

It was really nice just to see their interaction with each other and see the way they were

reacting to different problems that they may have faced.

We went around and we talked to them and a lot of the time they were willing to talk, so some of the

time they were a bit busy so we just kind of we kept in the background until they were ready

and they turned around and welcomed us because I mean we didn't really want to get

in their way or anything they come and say oh come and sit down and and tell us a bit

about yourself and it's like we're trying to ask you questions,

but yeah, it was much more relaxed than I thought it would be.

When I go back home, I'm going to be doing a couple of presentations at school

and in class and talking to some of my friends and my family are quite eager for me to create a web page on women working at NASA and at JPL to get people involved and get people to realize

that you know this is an obtainable thing and that it really is an interesting thing. Mars Exploration Rover Principal Investigator Steve Squires dubbed him the Ansel

Adams of Mars.

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