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Mars

Deconstructing Patterns exhibition

Life

Don’t miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting

Explore science-art tie-ups examining the microscopic world, read about a transgender scientist's career and go to the first meeting of Mars Society London

Culture

Mars r

Space

NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover

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lichen on rock

Space

Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars

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Sean Penn and LisaGay Hamilton

Space

Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration

Culture

Surface of Mars

Space

Salty Martian groundwater may have enough oxygen to support life

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A person in a Mars simulation

Space

A third of us would go one-way to Mars – but it may shrink your brain

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The Martians have landed in London, and they're hogging the camera

Space

The Martians have landed in London, and they're hogging the camera

Culture

The tracks of Opportunity rover on Mars

Space

NASA has just 45 days to save Opportunity rover after huge Mars storm

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US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

Comment

Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

Comment

Keri Bean

Space

How to drive the slowest vehicle in the solar system - on Mars

NASA engineer Keri Bean shares her dreams of driving a Mars rover, her fears that Opportunity won’t wake up and why NASA has grief counsellors on speed-dial

Features

Space

Terraforming Mars might be impossible due to a lack of carbon dioxide

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Space

Massive lake of water found beneath Mars’ south pole could host life

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Space

Whoops! NASA burned best evidence for life on Mars 40 years ago

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Space

Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth

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