Let's go to Mars with National Geographic this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. Are you watching the mini-series? Last July I was at the

Beverly Hilton Hotel to meet some of the people who created it and some of the people

who are included in the documentary portions of this impressive look forward at humans on the

Red Planet.

You'll hear Andy Weir, author of the Martian, Andruian of Cosmos Studios,

former NASA Chief Technology Officer Bobby Braun, and more.

Later Bruce Betts will help me kick off another space trivia

contest with a very special prize. Let's get underway with senior editor

Emily Lochuwala. Emily congratulations on this fine piece of work that you've documented in a to doesn't really reflect how much work you put into this,

high-rise coverage of the opportunity field site

version 1.0.

What did you accomplish here?

Well, high-rise is the highest resolution camera in orbit at Mars. It can take these incredibly detailed images of the surface, including images that resolve actual rovers and landers on the surface. and it's done a lot of imaging of the

various landing sites so much so that it's actually become kind of hard to figure out

when I want to take a photo when I want to look at where a rover has traveled which image should I pick.

So it really is about context.

Absolutely. So if you want to know what it looked like in the area when Opportunity was exploring

this or that crater, how it appeared from orbit

compared to how the rover saw it on the surface.

You need to go to this high-rise image coverage and you've got to figure out which image is the best

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