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If Mars was once habitable, it needed to have water. For the past 3 billion years, it’s been rather cold and dry. But what about the early days?
After the Chinese Zhurong’s successful landing, we look at the previous Mars missions that have tried, and sometimes failed.
An academic describes the career high of working on the most successful mission to Mars, and the little rover that made it possible.
Researchers have found evidence of a large lake of salty water, buried 1.5 kilometres beneath the southern polar ice cap on Mars. So what does that mean for life on the red planet?
They erupted for billions of years and make Earth’s volcanoes look like molehills. Here’s what we know and what we don’t know about them.
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Research Associate (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences), University of Glasgow
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
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PhD Candidate in Space History, UCL
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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester