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We won’t give up on the search for life on Mars.

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The situation developed in the next days and weeks, leading to a series of emergency meetings. On March 17, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s council and member states decided to suspend our mission. We won’t know for sure what happens next until a study by ESA and industry partners reports back in July — but there are causes for optimism.

The search for subterranean life on Mars

The Rosalind Franklin rover is unique among all the rovers planned for Mars. It can drill deeper than any before it — up to 2 meters below the harsh surface. This is important as the subsurface is protected from harmful radiation and could therefore contain signs of past or present life.

CNN — A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a trek.

The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin’s facilities in West Texas at 9:26 A.M ET, launching a group of six people to more than 62 miles above the Earth’s surface — which is widely deemed to make the boundary of outer space — and giving them a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting to landing.

Most of the passengers paid an undisclosed sum for their seats. But Katya Echazarreta, an engineer and science communicator from Guadalajara, Mexico, was selected by a nonprofit called Space for Humanity to join this mission from a group of thousands of applicants.