Private space venture company Mars One announced earlier this month that it intends to send people on a one-way colonisation mission to Mars in 2023, largely funded by sales of the mission’s media rights…
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The building blocks of life have been discovered on Mars … in Martian meteorites that fell to Earth. Let me rephrase that: according to a paper by published in Science Express on Friday, meteorites from…
New technology has allowed researchers to track the movements of sand dunes on Mars. Data captured from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance…
New mathematical analysis of 35-year-old data from the Mars Viking probes suggests that soil samples they retrieved may have…
It seems we’re about to come one step closer to putting man (and woman) on Mars. Is this exciting? Of course it is. Nothing fires the imagination quite like the prospect of walking around on a planet other…
The brand new launch system announced by NASA last week has received wide mainstream media coverage – and why wouldn’t it? It is a plan for a giant rocket, after all. The proposed Space Launch System (SLS…
Dark, finger-like features that appear and extend down some Martian slopes during the warmest months of the Mars year may…
It is inevitable that we will one day venture into space beyond the moon not just with robots but in person. Exploration is part of the human psyche: we are risk-takers with an insatiable curiosity. No…
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
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