A pilgrimage to the New Mexico Desert and the very large array this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

You may have heard me mention that I was traveling in New Mexico a few weeks ago.

Today we present the first of three great stories I covered there

as we visit with Dale Freel, director of the great radio

telescope known as the very large array. First though we'll check in with Emily

Lockwala for the best of the Planetary Society blog., we got other things to talk about,

but first you've got a couple of book reviews,

and both of these books are beautiful.

One of them, of course, we just featured on the show

not too many weeks ago.

That's right, that one's the beauty of space written by

actually quite a number of members of the International Association of

astronomical Artists also known as the I-Tribal A and then one member of that organization

Michael Carroll wrote a really wonderful book about

the meteorology of all the worlds with atmospheres in our solar system.

And I have to say about this book, I've tried to read about planetary weather before and it generally puts me right to sleep

but Michael Carroll's book drifting on alien winds was really great so I highly

recommend it and of course the illustrations are lovely because he's an artist

and oh my god that image that you have in the blog from inside

Saturn's atmosphere I want to see that as part of a Jim Cameron movie it's

incredibly beautiful. We'll go right on and the reason I want to talk about this is that it's this

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