The Light Sale Countdown begins this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society

that is celebrating the January 26th announcement of the Light Sale A Mission.

We'll talk with Project Manager Doug Stetson and Embedded reporter Jason Davis about this

test of innovative solar sailing technology.

Bill and I will add his thoughts in the company of a special guest.

Later we'll join Bruce Betts for our regular what's up. and the

special guest later we'll join Bruce Betts for our regular what's up sale across the night sky

including the space trivia contest. Getting us started is senior editor Emily

Lochuala with an extended two-mission report taking us is the

new one and that is your take on the reams of Rosetta data and pictures

released just last week very nice stuff.

It's the event we've all been waiting for.

Finally, there are peer-reviewed publications in print and science magazine,

eight research papers on the Rosetta results at Comet Trujumov-Gara Semanca,

and they include finally the release of a huge pile of

Osiris camera images. Osiris is the science camera on Rosetta. One of the images that they

released is down to 15 centimeters per pixels or we're seeing exquisite detail on the

surface of this comment. You have picture after picture here, so many of them with

features that you could just stare at for I don't know an hour and I imagine a lot of these

scientists are doing exactly that. It's just a crazy landscape I mean the comet is

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