Marvelous Martian Maven 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. You want hard exciting science after last week's space

artists? We've got it. Nick Schneider, the MAVEN Mission, is back with

astounding news of Martian clouds, auroras, the planet's disappearing

atmosphere, and more. Later Bruce Betts will take us out to the ballgame. Here's Planetary

Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guide to marvel with me at a December 21st

blog post by someone you know.

Bill, as we prepare to close out the year, I'm glad you want to talk about how our colleagues

Emily Lochuwala, who won't be heard this week.

She's celebrating the holidays like many of us.

And Merck Boin, our creative director, this interesting way they found to celebrate the

winter solstice. Yes, the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere of Earth,

where most people live, most of the land

and the world on our world is north of the equator.

What they did, Matt, they got north poles of 15 solar system bodies if you include the

sun, 14 plus the sun. And it's amazing, these images are so high resolution. They're so sharp. The shadows of the

North Poles of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Series, Vesta. It's just, it's amazing.

And we have done this, humankind has done this

with international effort.

We have a spacecraft from many countries

that are exploring the solar system to learn more about that mythic thing

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