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“If life is simply a question of the right environment, then yes, Mars had life”

In The Red Planet: ANatural History of Mars, you vividly describe what it’s like to be on ancient Mars. How much of this is scientific fact versus artistic licence?

Over the last 50 years, we’ve built up a considerable body of evidence that tells us what Mars was like at various points in its

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