Where would you look for life on Mars this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. My opening question is not just

rhetorical. Scientists and engineers are working right now to select the landing site for the

Mars Science Laboratory, a sort of super rover that will

look for past evidence of life on the red planet.

We'll talk with Roger Buick of the University of Washington about the advice he just offered the

MSL team. We'll also hear what our own Emily Lochuwala had to say about this

subject in a recent webcast. Russ Betts will join me for an on-location edition of What's Up, including a new space trivia contest.

Bill Nye, well as I speak, he is returning from a trip to Scotland, accompanied by Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman.

We hope to tell you more about that next week.

The bad news for the Hubble Space Telescope came out last week.

With shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad, nearly ready for the fourth and last repair mission,

NASA announced a new and serious problem.

The 1970s era computer that controls critical functions on

Hubble has malfunction. The repair mission has been postponed as engineers try a work around

and consider whether to add replacement of the system to the repair

missions already ambitious agenda. Have you caught one of Emily Lockawalla's

U-Kas? The Planetary Society Science and Technology Coordinator does live and interactive

web shows on a semi-regular basis.

You can find them in the archives of her blog at planetary.org.

On September 17, she reported on the Mars Science Laboratory

landing site selection process and priorities.

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