Special coverage of the DPS meeting 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.

DPS is the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

Hundreds of scientists come together every fall for the annual meeting of the division.

The 42nd of these gatherings was in Pasadena, California just last week.

We'll take you to the Convention Center in a couple of minutes right after Bill Nye begins our special coverage.

Hey, Bill Nye, the Planetary Guy here, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, and this week on your place in space

it's all about DPS

they had their big meeting in Pasadena, California, the United States this week

and when this thing started they all thought well we're going to look at

our solar system we're going to look at Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter

Saturn Uranus Neptune all good good. And we do.

We got spacecraft on the way to Mercury,

on the way to Venus.

We've got Cassini orbiting Saturn, we've got all that stuff.

But now, everybody at the vision of planetary sciences acknowledges or admits or

embraces the idea that we have to look at planets around other stars, not just

our own sun, other stars. And coincidentally, this week, a big announcement was made that Gleece 587G

seems to have the right surface temperature to have liquid water. Now if it had liquid water,

maybe it will have life. Oh my friends, if we discover certain gases in the atmosphere,

certain chemistry on this planet orbiting this distant

distant star it will change life on this planet I mean we'll still drive on

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