Zooming in on the Red Planet, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary

Society. It promises to be the best camera, actually two cameras, ever placed on

the surface of Mars. We'll talk with Jim Bell and Justin Mackie about its creation.

Bill Nye agrees with an astronaut that Mars is a great place to explore and a crappy place

to live.

Bruce Betts will bounce back for a look at the night sky and a new what's up space trivia

contest.

We'll start with senior editor Emily Loch Duwala.

She's here to share her blog about mind-blowing views of Pluto that come from outside NASA and the professional

world of science.

Well, what we're looking at in this blog entry are three different videos produced by space enthusiasts

using the New Horizons

lower image data that they released from the Pluto

encounter in July.

Each of these has its own charm. The first one, though, is especially cool

because as you point out you could actually see Pluto

being rocked back and forth in its orbit by that other body, its sister up there.

That's right Matthew Earl is a programmer. He wrote a

Python script that aligns all of these optical navigation images on background

stars and when you do that when you hold the star reference frame fixed you actually can see how

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