Finding solace in Starlight. This week, on Planetary Radio, I'm Sara Allahmed of the Planetary

Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. This week,

Sara Fina Nance joins us to discuss her new book, Star Struck, a memoir of astrophysics

and Finding Light in the Dark. We'll also share a beautiful poem about exploration that

will soon be on its way to Europa and let you know how you can put your name on the upcoming

Europa Clipper mission to go along with it. Then we'll check in with Bruce Betts for

What's Up and an update on this week's Night Sky. I'd like to send a huge thanks to

Matt Kaplan, our senior communications advisor. He stepped in for me last week while I was

on vacation dancing under the Starlight at a music festival for three days, and it's always

wonderful to have him back on the show. We've got some happy space news this week. Spain

has joined the Artemis Accords. That makes Spain the 25th signatory to the International

Agreement, which was set forth by NASA to establish best practices and norms for exploring

the moon and cis lunar space. 25 signatories on the Artemis Accords, that's really wonderful

to hear. And continuing with the moon mission hype, China also aims to land tyco knots on

the moon before 2030. Lin Segyang, who's the deputy director of the China Man Space

Agency, announced last week that the agency is developing a whole bunch of things, including

a new human-rated launch vehicle, crew spacecraft, a lunar lander, moon suit, other equipment,

and a whole new launch site. I am so excited for this new age of human lunar exploration.

It's going to be wonderful to see people back on the moon.

And in news from the outer solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a huge

plume jetting out of Saturn's moon in Saladis. The space telescope imaged the plume of water

vapor that spans about 9,600 kilometers. That's about 6,000 miles. And Saladis is spewing

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