Pluto, we hardly knew you, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Join me for an ecstatic conversation with Hal Weaver,

Project Scientist for the New Horizons mission

that has brought us a Pluto and neighbors that have

wowed the public and shock scientists. Bill Nye pays tribute to his buddy

Neil degrass Tyson and Bruce Bats will tell us what we can see in a busy night sky.

You might also win Bill Nye's personalized greeting for your voicemail in the space trivia

contest.

With some of the very latest news from Pluto and Sharon we go to senior editor Emily

Loch Duwala.

Emily before we get into the biggest news from Cassini, another fly-by of Enceladus,

you've got headlines from elsewhere in the solar system.

Let's start with Mars.

We just had the ninth hole drilled on Mars by Curiosity, which is not very much considering

how far we are into the mission, but it's only been 18 soles since the eighth

hole so they really are ramping up the pace it's another drill hole that shows that

Mars is red on the outside and gray on the inside. I'm looking forward to the more detailed scientific

results from that one. All right, just turning that red planet into Swiss cheese now. Let's hope so anyway. Let's go much

farther out to New Horizons. Of course we'll be talking about that mission and

what it has discovered at Pluto in just a few seconds with Howell Weaver. What is

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