From Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena, California,

this is Planetary Radio Live.

Here's your host, the Planetary Societies, Matt Kaplan.

Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

It was one year ago that we gathered here to preview the mission of Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.

We can only hope that this mighty robotic explorer would land

safely on the red planet. A year and seven minutes of terror later, that emissary

from Earth is more than four months into a voyage of discovery

that is beginning to unwrap some of Mars's deepest secrets. We'll talk with the

leaders of that mission, Project Manager Richard Cook, and Project scientist John Grotinger.

Joining us on stage will be the CEO of the Planetary Society.

Bill Nye, the Science and Planetary Guy,

our terrific musical guests, our Hedgehog swing.

We'll hear from them again later,

and we'll welcome Bruce Betts for this week's

edition of What's Up, including the chance

for a few people in our audience

to play the space trivia game.

Now, what if Curiosity had no cameras?

It would still be able to do fantastic science,

but we'd be denied some of the most beautiful exotic and revealing images in the history

of planetary science.

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