Methane gas in the atmosphere is a tantalising hint suggesting that life could exists on Mars.
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There are some great opportunities to see the planet travelling across the night skies.
The Perseverance rover’s landing could help reveal secrets of Mars’ interior.
Scientists preparing to land the Rosalind Franklin rover in a few years are nervously awaiting the landing of Nasa’s Perseverance rover.
Of the three probes to reach Mars this month, only two will land. But they will add to our growing knowledge of the red planet, and the search for evidence of life.
If China succeeds, it will be the first country ever to visit and land on Mars on its first try.
Transcript for Episode 1 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including stories on Mars and Belarus.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has arrived and landed the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. The rover’s goal is to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth in the future.
The space laws designed to protect planets and moons from contamination.
Plus what protesters in Belarus want to happen next. Episode 1 of The Conversation’s new weekly podcast.
India has already managed what China has not.
SpaceX is due to test fly its Starship in the coming days.
India may land on the Moon this coming year, while Nasa will launch its new, powerful rocket farther into space than any other human rated spacecraft.
We’ve already sent probes to land on Mars. The challenge now is to get people there and bring them home again.
Starship’s groundbreaking design will help it land safely on Mars one day.
Gray mouse lemurs are more closely related to humans than mice. They also have the ability to hibernate, and researchers are hoping to learn how to transfer that ability to humans.
It is becoming increasingly clear that there is plenty of brine on Mars.
With a new president in the White House and NASA’s chief administrator resigning we can expect changes to space policy.
Three newly discovered bodies of liquid water deep beneath the south polar ice cap on Mars have planetary scientists intrigued.
New findings boost chances of finding life on Mars, but there are better candidates in the solar system.
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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 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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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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