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How to Mars review: Sci-fi satire about reality TV on the Red Planet

How to Mars review: Sci-fi satire about reality TV on the Red Planet

4 August 2021

How to Mars by David Ebenbach is an amusing novel about a failed attempt at reality TV on Mars. It is a new twist on the genre, says Clare Wilson
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter photographed by the Perseverance rover on April 5

NASA is about to fly a helicopter on another planet for the first time

8 April 2021

The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, is getting ready to perform its first test flight on 12 April
It could be snowing on Mars right now

It could be snowing on Mars right now

21 August 2017

The Red Planet may have had intense snowstorms long ago when it was wetter, but a model shows it could still have violent snowfall at night when the clouds cool

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