Join us at Vesta Fiesta, this week on planetary radio. The Dawn Spacecraft

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

The Dawn Spacecraft went into orbit around I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

The Dawn Spacecraft went into orbit around Vesta on July 15.

Three weeks later, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab threw a party.

We'll visit that celebration where we met Pablo Gutierrez

Marquez, operations manager for the only visible light camera on dawn. You may have

seen some of the spectacular images, it has already returned.

Then we'll join Bruce Betts for a tour of the night sky.

We've also got some space trivia contest answers that I think you'll get a kick out of.

Up first is Emily Lochuto-Wala, the Planetary

Society's Science and Technology Coordinator and the editor of its blog.

Emily this week, I think we have to talk about opportunity having finally reached its destination and beginning

to look around, Creator Endeavor.

Yeah, it's really pretty amazing.

If you hadn't been paying attention to the mission for very long you'd think that

somehow opportunity had been transported to Spirit's landing site because all of a

sudden we have rock types we've never seen before with opportunity it's recently

just crawled up to a large flat-topped rock where the top is very bright and it's possible

Just speculating here, but it's possible that we're seeing some kind of vein of material where the rock split open along that vein and bright stuff is exciting

stuff on Mars so it'll be interesting to find out what that is.

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