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

Lichens can be revived after being subjected to Mars-like conditions, so they could be used on long space flights to produce hydrogen rocket fuel along the way

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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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Comment

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

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Keri Bean

Space

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

Features

The surface of Mars

Space

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

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

Space

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

Data from the Mars Express satellite suggests there is a huge body of permanently liquid water under the surface of Mars, which could potentially 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

News

Space

The Habitat: Podcast power turns us into terraformers

Culture

Space

Team moon vs team Mars: the battle over the future of NASA

Insight