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Do we finally have evidence of life on Mars? 🚀🔴 This remains one of the most exciting scientific questions of our time! Thanks to NASA’s Perseverance Rover, we may now be closer than ever to an answer. A rock sample nicknamed Cheyvaya Falls from Jezero Crater shows signs that microbial life could have thrived there billions of years ago. 🌍🦠

In this episode of Kainaati Gup Shup, astrophysicist Salman Hameed (Professor of Astronomy, Hampshire College, USA) unpacks the stunning new findings, explains the right vs. wrong ways of doing science, and also dives into the bold (and controversial) claims by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about a comet possibly carrying alien life! 🌌💫

Could Mars really have hosted life? And how do we separate good science from bad science when the stakes are this high?

References:
Hurowitz, J.A., Tice, M.M., Allwood, A.C. et al.
Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars.
Nature 645, 332–340 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09...

NASA Perseverance Rover Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

Avi Loeb’s Comet Claims (Harvard Astronomy)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

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