Jim Bell on our entry into the Interstellar Age 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. the new book that tells the story of the Voyager Mission.

Bill Nye, the Science Guy, will help us remember Leonard Nimoy.

While later we'll visit with Bruce Betts and get some cosmic potty humor.

We begin with Emily Lautdwala. The Planetary Society senior editor

posted a blog entry on February 26th about the Dawn Mission's imminent arrival at

Dwarf Planet Series. Now there is even more news to share.

Emily, as we speak, a press briefing has just finished on NASA TV coming out of

JPL about the Series Mission. You also just wrote about this mission

didn't sound like there was a whole lot of new news, but what did you hear?

Well I heard that the team is understandably extremely excited about the new images and

particularly excited about features on the surface of series that they did not

expect to see and are looking forward to investigating after they go into orbit next

week.

You must be first at least talking about those mysterious white spots.

Yeah, you know, we did expect to see something bright on the surface because Hubble saw a bright

spot on the surface of Series.

But I have to say that they probably did not expect what they saw, which is a spot that

remains so bright and yet so small that they can't resolve it in their current images.

They're going to have to get

closer in order to get enough pixels across it to try to figure out what the

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