Back to DPS this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Lucy McFadden chased down a meteor turned meteorite in the Sudan.

Her former student, Carolyn Crow, is just getting her career as a space rock person underway.

I talked with both of them at the American Astronomical Society's Division for

Planetary Sciences Meeting a couple of weeks ago.

And you'll hear these fascinating conversations today.

Emily Lautuwala reports on the just as fascinating revelations about water and much more

at the North Pole of the Moon.

Just be careful where you step,

since you might sink right down into the fluff.

Bill Nye reports from the mall in Washington, D.C. where he was one of the most popular

attractions at the USA Science and Engineering Festival. We'll wrap up with our

usual guide to the night sky courtesy of Bruce Betts. And we've got another copy of

wonders of the solar system to give away in the new space trivia contest.

Here's a program note. If all goes well in two weeks you'll hear our special report on the last

countdown for space shuttle discovery. I'm already excited it will be my first

ever in-person experience of any launch unless you count a couple of Estes model rockets a few decades ago.

Remember the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite?

Its Lunar Smackdown was just over a year ago.

But Emily Lachtoala reported big news just last week.

Emily, let's start with some exciting news from the L-Cross mission. Looks like there's quite a bit of water up there at the

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