Ray Bradbury Bradbury returns to planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

He's back. The author of

Fahrenheit 451 of The Illustrated Man of Something Wicked This Way Comes of

the Martian Chronicles and so many other classic stories joins us for a conversation

about the romance of space exploration and much more.

And as if that wasn't enough, we've got Emily Lachtoala exploring beyond Pluto and Bruce Betts with an update

on that mysterious pioneer anomaly. Of course Bruce will also offer up another space trivia

contest in this week's edition of What's Up?

Let's get to the news.

What's better than pictures from Mars?

How about live pictures from Mars?

Arizona State University has published a new website with a

scrolling panel that continuously displays images returning from the Mars

Odyssey Orbiter. The site has many other cool features including an interactive map of the

red planet that lets you zoom in on the surface. More details and a link are at planetary.org. The Hubble Space Telescope has peered outward to nearly the

edge of the expanding universe so what's a measly quarter of a million miles?

Who knew it could even focus that close?

Hubble's ultraviolet camera is returning unprecedented images of our own moon

in a search for minerals that just might be very useful someday soon.

They carry Gemini astronauts into space, and they've boosted hundreds of less important payloads

into orbit.

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