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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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Humans
James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life
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Life on Mars
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Unique chance to confirm methane spikes – and perhaps life – on Mars
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Physics
Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought
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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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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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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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Space
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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