Visiting Fantastic Worlds with Bonnie Barotti this week on planetary radio.

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

system and beyond.

World's Fantastic, World's Familiar, is the new book by JPL scientist Bonnie Barotti will tour the solar system with

her on today's show.

With every solution comes new challenges, says Bill Nye.

He'll explain as we talk about accessing the internet from anywhere on Earth.

And Bruce Betts will help us find the connections among hamsters, Sky Lab, and gold on what's up. Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover was

visibly exploring the Red Planet while senior editor Emily Lautowala was on

sabbatical.

Emily, we mentioned but didn't provide any detail on your curiosity update that you

posted.

Now it's been a couple of weeks but still very current.

You had a lot to cover. What, two and a half months worth.

Pretty much, it was a lengthy campaign that Curiosity took to study the southern half of

the Bagno dune field, studying the sand dunes in four different locations, taking a look at the sand dune field studying the sand dunes in four different locations taking a look at the

sand and finally sampling in the final spot. Well the gorgeiosity a lot of

images in this begin right up at the top with this beautiful banner looking forward toward

those hills in Curiosity's future.

But it was another image or really a matrix of images that grabbed me.

Last weekend, I was on the Central California coast,

and I bent over, picked up a handful of sand,

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