The Year of Icey Worlds, this week on Planetary Radio.

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

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

This week we visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a celebration of planetary

missions that are heating up even though they are exploring worlds of ice.

Dawn is nearing series, the largest of the asteroids.

Cassini has begun the final phase of its mission at Saturn near Enceladus,

and we finally have a real start on a mission to Europa

Jupiter's ice and liquid ocean moon. We begin with Emily Lochuala's documentation

of two other moons.

Emily, welcome back.

I'm glad that we can talk about a piece

that you posted on the 4th of February,

and it is a pretty comprehensive exploration

of the moons of Mars and photos of them beginning

with some photos that you were able to get from a scientist in India.

That's right.

The Mars Orbiter mission has been relatively quiet of late, but they have taken so far 250 images of Mars.

That piece of information comes from our Lunar and Planetary Science Conference abstract.

And among those are some photos of Damos and in particular the far side of

Damos which is very unusual. Damos is the smaller and more distant of Mars's

two moons and most Mars spacecraft orbit underneath it so they never get to see the far side.

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