Cassini peers down at Titan and the Huygens landing site this week on planetary radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

The Saturn Orbiter flew right over the spot where the European

Space Agency's Huygen's probe settled down on Titan last January.

Cassini's powerful radar signals poked right through the big moon's hazy atmosphere

to reveal the landscape below.

But just what are we looking at?

And was that a coastline that got imaged a few weeks ago? We'll hear the beginnings of answers to these questions

from Steve Wall, deputy leader of the Cassini radar team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Later today, Bruce Betts explains how one of our listeners will get to join us for a what's up segment.

First though, just time enough for these space headlines.

Two more moons at Pluto?

That's the tentative conclusion reached by a team relying on the Hubble Space Telescope.

The details are at planetary.org and we'll try to get lead researcher Alan Stern back on the

show to talk about these discoveries.

Hayabusa, Hiccup's.

Mission directors aborted release of the little Japanese probes Lander.

It was to make a trial run at asteroid Itakawa in preparation for the first of two sample collecting

visits. Again, you'll find the complete story at planetary.org.

And NASA has just announced that Jeffrey Hanley will manage Project Constellation.

That's the agency's new name for the program that will develop the crew exploration vehicle

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