Ralph Florence and Titan unveiled 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. We leave Mars and head hundreds of

millions of miles outward to Saturn where the great Cassini spacecraft continues to

explore that beautiful ringed planet and its moons.

Our specific destination is Titan, and our guide is planetary scientist Ralph Lorenz,

a major contributor to the Huygens probe.

We'll talk about that frigid yet weirdly. a major contributor to the Huygens probe.

We'll talk about that frigid yet weirdly earth-like world

and his new book, Titan Unveiled.

Emily Lochuwala will take us back to the Red Planet in this week's Q&A segment, and we'll wrap up with a

particularly sweet edition of What's Up. Sweet as the candy will enjoy as we examine the night sky

and give away another planetary radio t-shirt with Bruce Betts.

Discovery is back from its trip to the International Space Station.

The picture perfect mission delivered another big hunk of the Japanese Kibo lab. Note that's Kibo, translated as hope, not Kaibo. Let's put the Kaibosh on that.

We thank Rick Sternbach for the correction, a terrific artist and designer, and he knows a little Japanese.

Live long and prosper, Rick.

Have you heard? Pluto is now Queen of the Plutoids.

The story is at planetary.org where you'll also find Phoenix Mars Mission

updates. Titan unveiled. It's a great read with a very accurate title, but it could as easily have been called planetary

exploration unveiled. Co-author Ralph Lorenz is now a planetary scientist

with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab but as Cassini Huygens got underway, he was a young

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