Our mysterious sister, Venus, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,

with more of a human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Astrophysicist Javier Peralta has written an outstanding article in the planetary report about cloud-shrouded Venus,

we will talk with this Spaniard who has lived and worked in Japan for the last five years.

We've reached another 50th anniversary, this time it's the Apollo 12

mission and Jason Davis will remind us of its impressive accomplishments.

Who had the first meal in space? We'll find out in what's up.

Bruce Betts fooled a lot of you with this installment of the space trivia contest.

A special invitation from the Planetary Society is moments away after we sample the week's headlines from around the solar system.

NASA plans to launch a water mapping rover to the moon's south pole in 2022.

Viper is the Volatiles investigating polar exploration rover.

It will analyze ice in the moon's permanently shadowed craters using a one meter long

drill built by Honeybee robotics.

The Planetary Society has helped fund tests of several Honeybee technologies over the years, including planetary

deep drill and Planet Vac, both of which we've covered on planetary radio.

The long struggle of the so-called Mole instrument on the Insight Mars Lander continues.

The little self-hammering probe had appeared to make progress in recent days with help from the Kraft's robotic arm. Well, it suddenly backed

itself out of its hole. I've been told that this behavior has also been seen in the simulations

underway at JPL and that the mission team remains hopeful,

but it does make me wonder about Martian gophers.

And we now know more about yet another roughly spherical asteroid.

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