About
James Lewis is a PhD student at
Imperial College London
investigating how Mars environments and organic molecules interact.
Twitter account: @jmtlewis
Also on reddit as /u/MarsBlogger-
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Tag Archives: Life
One step closer to discovering life on Mars
Yesterday NASA revealed that it has found evidence for present day liquid water on Mars. In this blog post I’ll explain how they made this discovery, why it is significant and what it means for the search for life on … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Life, Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA, Perchlorate, Water
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Radiation and Mars: Don’t forget the sun cream
The most obvious difference between the Earth and Mars is that Earth is almost double the size of its neighbour. Mars’ small size meant it cooled more rapidly and the liquid iron in its core eventually solidified, resulting in the planet’s … Continue reading
10 photos that tell the story of Mars exploration
1. Holy gigapixels! This is technically cheating as following this link takes you to several gigapixel images of Mars that you can zoom and pan around, but they’re so amazing hopefully you can forgive me. These incredibly detailed images from … Continue reading
Posted in Exploration
Tagged Curiosity Rover, Exploration, Life, Mariner, Mars, Mars 3, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Opportunity, Pathfinder, Space, Spirit, Viking
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Nitrate and the search for life on Mars
In order to understand if life ever existed on Mars we need to not only look for evidence of possible ancient Martian organisms but also try and understand if there were ever environments on ancient Mars that would have been … Continue reading
Curiosity Rover and the mysterious Martian methane
In December exciting new data, including two new papers, from the Curiosity Rover team were released. The update focussed mainly on the detection of methane and other organic compounds by the rover. I’ll cover the other compounds in a more … Continue reading
Minerals and the search for life on Mars
Understanding if life could ever have existed on Mars is one of the most challenging scientific questions facing us in the 21st Century. We know that the Martian surface at present is an arid environment bombarded with ultraviolet radiation, so … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, Curiosity Rover, Dust, Imperial College, Life, Mars, Perchlorate, Viking
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