Hello, welcome along. I hope you're ready for your mind to be blown because it's a brand-new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly.

My name is Dan, thank you for being there. It's the time of the week where we have a search, a scour around the solar system to see what incredible science is lurking there.

Some brilliant news to start the show. The entry for this year's Best Podcast in the Universe award is on its way.

We've been it up. It's currently travelling to Neptune where it's being judged this year. We said it a couple of days ago so I reckon it's just past Jupiter.

So keep your fingers crossed and I will let you know more when I hear it. Now this week we've got a bona fide here on the show.

A friend of the podcast, a legend who knows more about the world and its strange creatures than most others.

Steve Baxal joins us. He's on to talk about his newest journey around one of the most unique places ever, the Galapagos.

To sea lions battling with each other on the shores and Galapagos sharks coming in to try and catch their pups as they wander too close to the edge,

you'll have marine iguanas, one of the very few lizards that will enter the sea at all, heading into the sea every day into crashing spray.

Also Amy's aviation is back talking about how things fly. This week it's all about how wooden planes can stay in the air.

I know what you're thinking. Camel, that's a really silly name for a plane.

But it was just because there were two bumps on the back covering its machine guns, it looked a bit like a camel.

And I've got your questions as always this week they are on black holes and tickling.

Should be a funny one. It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.

Let's start with your science in the news.

NASA's Perseverance Rover currently roaming around Mars is close to finishing its first set of missions up there.

It's collected a huge range of rocks and it will soon leave them in a pile on the surface which will wait for later space robots to come and pick up.

Everything it's picked up so far shows scientists that it's the perfect place that life could have lived in the past which is brilliant news.

We've been searching for other places in the universe that could house life could have kept life way back because maybe there's a chance that that needs to happen in the future.

And although we need to do our best to help this planet we're on it's always good to know there are other places that humans might be able to live.

Also more than 200 whales have been found stranded on a beach in Tasmania which is off the coast of Australia.

It's a shallow area and experts don't know what drew the whales there but their stuck on the sand it's really sad they can't get out.

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