15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... study by scientists in the US and UK have found that such a situation has the potential to allow photosynthetic life to develop on Mars without extensive planetary-scale modifications. Despite the name, aerogels, of which there are a few varieties...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... exists today. And wherever there's groundwater, there's energy for life say the researchers. “We don't know whether life ever got started beneath the surface of Mars, but if it did, we think there would be ample energy there to sustain...
29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
...Mars was once a wet and organic-rich planet which harboured the right conditions for life to start. Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for all life...minerals, which precipitated from salty liquid water on Mars' near-surface 4 billion years ago. The ...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater... to finding signs of life however, it is also designed to better understand the geology and climate of Mars, and to pave the...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... ancient river and a lake within the 45.0 km (28.0 mi) wide crater. Conceivably, microbial life could have lived in Jezero if the area was flooded in Mars’ past and if the region is rich in carbonate minerals, as scientists suspect it is, fossilised...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
.... It has scheduled to land in the southern part of Mars' Utopia Planitia, a large plain within Utopia to search for evidence of current and past life. The lander carries six scientific instruments including a ground-penetrating radar, a multispectral...
