They made it.

Opportunity at Endeavor Crater on Mars 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.

Even the scientists and engineers pushing the little rover to its destination

doubted it could reach endeavor.

Yet opportunity has arrived at the rim of that Vass crater. We'll hear excerpts of a celebratory press conference

that also shares a new and very exciting find. Talk about exciting. How about a planet

made of diamond?

Bill Nye will share that jewel of a tale in his visit with us, and Bruce Betts will help me

celebrate an accomplishment of our own, as you were about to hear in my conversation with Emily Lachwaala, the Planetary Society Science

and Technology Coordinator, and the editor of its blog at planetary.org.

Emily, we have a couple of good things to talk about this week but first of all I want to

thank you for retweeting letting all of your Twitter followers know about our

win of the Parsek Award at DragonCon and thank you for your contributions to the show.

And thank you Matt for making such a great show.

It's been fun to participate in this over the years.

I'm sure glad you feel that way and I know that the listeners out there feel that you are a big part of it

and I certainly agree with them.

So on with space exploration.

First of all, just heads up to people

that your monthly What's up is available.

That's right and probably the biggest thing happening this month is the launch of

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