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Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive

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Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive

Mars’s surface is not suitable for life because of its low temperatures and constant radiation bombardment, but just a few centimetres of aerogel could fix that

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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Life on Mars

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Life on Mars

Mars rover

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Unique chance to confirm methane spikes – and perhaps life – on Mars

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the NASA-MOLA false-colour topographic model of the Mars surface Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the hemispheric dichotomy and southern highlands (orange), a likely source for the Martian polymict breccia meteorites

Physics

Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought

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Phobos

Space

Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon

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Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

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Surviving Mars

Technology

Surviving Mars lets you enjoy the highs and lows of building a colony

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Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet

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Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet

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NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

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NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

Measuring seismic activity on Mars could help us figure out how much water the planet has, and now NASA’s InSight lander has felt marsquakes for the first time

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Life

If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earth’s

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Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry

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Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

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Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it

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