Talking about the Demon in the Machine with its author Paul Davies this week on

planetary radio. Welcome I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure

across our Solar System and beyond. The full title of Paul's new book is The Demon and the Machine, how hidden The Even that audacious title doesn't do the book full justice.

On this special episode, we'll talk with Paul for nearly an hour.

Followed of course by our latest look at that crowded night sky with Bruce Betts. We've got a copy of the book for the

winner of Bruce's new space trivia contest. Planetary science and missions

dominate our review of the latest headlines in the downlink.

The Planetary Society's digest of the biggest stories from around our little universe

are collected each week by editorial director Jason Davis.

Alan Stern and the science team by editorial director Jason Davis.

Alan Stern and the science team behind NASA's New Horizons mission released new results

from the spacecraft's flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Arakoth last year. The findings published in the

Journal Science further support the notion that Arakoth's two round lobes

formed in the same region of space and came together in a slow speed collision.

With NASA's 2020 rover now in Florida for its summertime launch, we've learned that the European Space Agency's Rosal and Franklin

Mars rover has made it to France, where it will be mated to its descent module.

The critical parachutes needed for the mission are still undergoing tests.

NASA announced the selection of four mission concepts in its relatively low-cost discovery program.

The only shame is that all four may not be funded, to aim for Venus, another

for Jupiter's violent Moon Iow, with the last targeting Neptune's Triton.

The field should narrow to two later this year. Lastly, your

latest opportunity to slip the surly bonds of Earth without having to buy a ticket.

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