Science Fiction embraces Science Fact this week on planetary radio. Planetary Society.

Europa Report is the great new movie about a human mission to Jupiter's ice-covered moon.

We'll talk to its producer and director.

They got a hand in creating the film, Kevin Hand. We'll welcome

back this expert on Europa and other worlds suspected of hiding water oceans.

Let's begin with Planetary Society senior editor Emily Lochuwala.

She just completed another trip.

Welcome back, Emily.

Tell us, where were you?

Well, I was in Laurel, Maryland for most of a week at a meeting of scientists talking about what we can expect when New Horizons

flies past Pluto two years from this month.

So still two years away but lots of preparation to be done.

That's really what this was about?

Absolutely, you know a flyby mission. preparation to be done. Is that that's really what this was about?

Absolutely, you know, a fly-by mission, it's going to totally revolutionize our view of

Pluto, but it's really only going to make sense in the context of the observations that

have been done for the decades before and the ones

that will be taken for decades after New Horizons flies by, particularly for a world like

Pluto that changes so slowly. We're just going to get a snapshot of its history right after summer has passed and

spring is coming to the northern hemisphere and it's just this one view that we're going to get and we

have to be able to understand what this little snapshot means in terms of

Pluto's very variable weather over the course of its very long year.

...