As he discovered Planet 10, Mike Brown this week on planetary Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

One thing's for sure.

Mike Brown and his co-discoverers have found something bigger than Pluto and much farther

away.

We'll hear from the source about 2003 UB-13, including the progress toward awarding it a sexier name.

Bruce Betts is excited about Planet 10, but saves some enthusiasm for the other nine in this week's What's Up segment.

Leading the news are one departure and one arrival.

Discovery is back, safe and sound.

The return to flight shuttle mission landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on August 9 after 14 days in space.

And the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way to the Red Planet.

Planetary Radio will be talking to someone from that mission real soon, we promise.

There are a couple of articles about the MRO at planetary.org.

While you're there, you can also read about the first radar beams successfully

bounced off the Martian surface and more importantly the planet's

subsurface by Europe's Mars Express orbiter. Emily is up next, processed or raw, she likes those delicious Cassini images any way she can get them.

I'll be back in a minute with Clyde Tombaugh, I mean, Mike Brown.

Hi, I'm Emily Loch Doala with questions and answers.

A listener asked, I keep I'm Emily Loch Duwala with questions and answers.

A listener asked, I keep seeing references to processed and raw Cassini images on the web.

What's the difference?

Raw images are made from data straight from the spacecraft and there can be a lot about raw images that's not perfect.

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