The eyes of Wies find thousands of new asteroids 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.

Principal investigator Ned Wright returns to share with us the wonders just revealed by the

wide field infrared survey explorer or WISE. Bill Nye is ready to set sail on Red Survey Explorer, or Wise.

Bill Nye is ready to set sail on the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan, and Bruce Bats will

brief us on a very busy night sky during What's Up.

Also very busy last week was Planetary Society blogger Emily

Lochuwala, but not so busy that she couldn't show us a robot named

Curiosity taking its first steps. Emily welcome back much to cover this time so we're going to jump

right in. I love watching that new big rover actually rove across the lab at JPL.

It's really astonishing how huge curiosity is.

It is so much bigger than the Mars Exploration Rovers.

And seeing it moved for the first time was kind of a thrill,

but it was definitely just its first baby steps

a little bit of forward and backward driving not more than a meter or two in each direction.

Yeah it was fun.

You've got all these parents standing around and helping it take its first few steps and it has a tether and anyway.

Speaking of Mars, that map that you got so excited about actually brought you to tears.

Yeah, I'm a nerd, but it's true. It really I got I got a tear in my eye when I was looking at this map because you know it's the product of nine years of work by this mission just patiently orbiting Mars 12 times a day

capturing these images and then sending them back to Earth and then nine years of

work by all the people back on Earth to carefully assemble all these images into a seamless map that covers

the vast majority of the surface of Mars.

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