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The Sky at Night

Life on Mars

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The Sky at Night team investigates the ongoing hunt for life on Mars. It is one of the great scientific questions of our time, but are we any closer to finding an answer? As well as uncovering the cause of the recent crash of the Schiaparelli lander, the team looks at the next missions designed to hunt for life on the red planet - from a rover designed to drill deep into the surface, to the orbiter sniffing for signs of methane in the atmosphere. Adam Rutherford joins the team to ask if we have been deliberately avoiding the most likely places to find life on Mars. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Lintott
Series Producer:
Michael Lachmann
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Renouf

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