Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope, 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.

Have you been to the Grand Canyon?

Did the pictures you'd seen of it come close to viewing the real thing?

No, they didn't, did they?

That's how it is with the James Webb Space Telescope.

It's what I discovered a few days ago when I visited the Webb.

You'll hear my conversations with three leaders of the effort to build the space observatory

that will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble.

Bruce Betts will put the icing on this cake of science with a JWST random space

fact that will have you buzzing.

First up are these headlines from the July 2nd edition of the Downlink, our weekly newsletter,

which is topped by the image that used to be on the back of my business card.

It's our own pale blue dot seen by the Cassini orbiter and a picture that includes the rings of Saturn.

Words cannot express its beauty or its profound impact.

Our own Andrew Jones has shared video of China's Zerong Rover descending to the Martian surface.

You'll find it among these headlines at planetary.org slash downlink.

NASA's Neo-wise has been given a two-year mission extension by NASA.

The near-earth object-contained spacecraft has already observed nearly 2000 asteroids.

We'll be talking with Neo-wise and Neo-surveyor principal investigator Amy Meinser in a couple of weeks.

And aviation legend Wally Funk will finally make it into space.

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