Saving the Earth and winning a prize as you do it this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan.

Apophis is the 300 meter rock discovered just four years ago that might make a big hole in our planet within 30 years.

We'll hear about a just completed competition sponsored by the Planetary Society

that resulted in the design of missions to Apophis that would help us determine just how much

danger we're actually in. We'll also hear about determine just

how much danger we're

hear about something that scientists have just christened the fly-by anomaly.

Is it evidence that there are forces in the universe that we know nothing about.

That's what has Bill Nye the Science Guide pretty excited.

Emily Lachawala sees riverbeds on Mars.

But there's something funny about them. She'll explain during her Q&A segment, and

Bruce Bats will light up the night sky in this week's What's Up Extravagansa, including a new

space trivia contest.

What did 15 women at JPL have in common?

They were members of the first 100% female Mars Exploration Rover Tactical Operations Team.

That's just one thing you can read in the latest comprehensive update on Spirit and

Opportunity, it's at planetary.org.

Don't miss the great picture snapped by opportunity of the dunes

at the bottom of Victoria Crater.

Last week's Space Exploration Conference in Denver, Colorado must have been fun.

Among other things, NASA demonstrated a lunar rover prototype equipped with a drill.

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