On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Michael Tice to talk about a possible detection of ancient life on Mars.
Tice is a research scientist, a planetary geologist at Texas A&M and is one of the paper's key authors. He has a lot to say about how the research was pulled from the year-old drill sampling, the incredible rigor that was applied to their findings, and what's next in this amazing story. It's the one we've all been waiting for — a possible indication of life beyond our own planet!
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Space news of the week
- Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars
- 'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China
- SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base
- James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long
- Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens
- Life on Mars? NASA says a rock sample shows potential signs of ancient life
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scours Mars for Science
- Mars Sample Return
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