Living and working on Mars this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier and this week to the

33rd International Space Development Conference in Southern California,

where the space development community has come to share big ideas and bigger dreams.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society in a few minutes

we'll open a conversation about our future on the red planet.

We've also got our usual visits with Bill Nye and Bruce Betts.

Bruce will be helping me give away a little bit's electronic space kit during

this week's What's Up segment. First though, someone who is a major participant

here at the ISDC, Planetary Society Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist Emily Lochuwala.

Emily, we're going to get into something that is just spectacular and right off the presses,

if there's a web sense of that.

First, because you talked about Rosetta last week, almost

immediately after we spoke, there was a pretty interesting image development.

That's right. They published a set of images from Rosetta's Osiris camera, which is

the main science camera on the spacecraft.

It's a little early for science right now.

They've been taking photos with that camera in order to better their optical navigation

toward the comet, but lo and behold, they made a discovery that the comet has begun commentary activity as it approaches the sun.

So in these images a series of photos taken between March and May, you can see a tail beginning to develop which is pretty exciting

because that of course is exactly the kind of thing that they're going to the comet

to study.

All right let's move on to this very much hands-on entry that you have just posted at planetary.org in your blog.

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