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Mars Society Australia congratulates Prof. Jane Greaves and her team from Cardiff University for their remarkable and historic research published today in Nature Astronomy indicating the strong possibility of microbial life in the clouds of Venus.

This unexpected discovery not only has enormous implications for further exploration and search for life throughout the Solar System but also for the investigation into the origins of life on Earth.

While Venus seems at first too inhospitable a place for life to survive, recent discoveries have identified it in other extreme environments on Earth that were also considered too harsh. These include both hot and acidic environments.  Some of the earliest signs of life on Earth were found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in old hot spring deposits dating almost 3.5 billion years.

"Our Solar System has numerous other words which could harbour life. Spacecraft have explored and searched for...

Tianwen-1 is the second of three spacecraft set to take off this month for the red planet.

A Chinese spacecraft is on its way to Mars after launching successfully from Hainan Island in southern China. The mission — named Tianwen-1, which means ‘questions to heaven’ — is the country’s first attempt to land on the red planet.

The 5,000-kilogram spacecraft, which contains a lander, orbiter and rover, blasted off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center aboard a Chinese Long March-5 rocket at 12:41 p.m. local time on 23 July. Some 36 minutes later, the craft was successfully put on its trajectory towards Mars.

You can read more about this ambitious spacecraft here.

View of western New South Australia from 30km up. Mars Society member Steve Hobbs is busily readying hardware for Earth orbit and beyond.

One way to simulate Mars like conditions to test components on the Earth’s stratosphere some during high altitude balloon flight provided by Robert Brand and his company, Thunderstruck Space. 

Make sure you click on the image for the full size view.

The Mars Society Australia (MSA) is calling for nominations for directors. Directors are appointed for a initial term of two years and half the board is elected every year.

MSA is an organisation of like-minded people that provides educational and public outreach, engineering projects and scientific research related to the planet Mars.  You can read more about the MSA here:

https://marssociety.org.au/about 

Our board of directors help run day to day operations as well as strategically plan and mange the society's endeavours.

If have an interest in Mars and would like to contribute to the MSA, please consider nominating as a director.  While professional experience in business and science is highly regarded, formal qualifications are not required. The MSA's board is typically made up of people with differing professional experience and interest who share one thing - a passion to better our...