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...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
...discovering several subglacial liquid bodies of various sizes strewn under Mars’ South polar region. This time around, using a... our planet. Despite this, could similar life have got established on Mars and managed to survive in these underground salt...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
...formed by geologic processes or be remnants of ancient microbial life, say the team behind the new study. It ... we determine that there are organic salts concentrated anywhere on Mars, we’ll want to investigate those regions further, and ideally drill...
01 October 2019
Life on Mars: what to know before we go
..., and the rest of the book, is a good read. The volume concludes with an unusual appendix of “life on Mars astronomers and scientists” (do the former not qualify as the latter?), chapter notes, a glossary and an index. No-one ...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
In preparation for searching for life on Mars, a PhD student is testing a powerful spectrometer that will be... inside we can work out where to direct rovers on Mars when searching for life in these similar conditions.” “Further work with the data ...
29 September 2015
Mars contamination fears: excitement over RSLs also inspires caution
...do with possible contamination fears, as the machines have not been properly sterilised. Online, excitement over potential life on Mars has also been dampened by contamination talk, perhaps best summed up by this tweet from Emily Lakdawalla: I wouldn...
