we're so happy to have keith cowing from washing d.c. joining us he's an astrobiologist formerly with nasa an editor of nasa watch dot com keith before we start can you tell us what does an astrobiologist do. well we study the origin evolution and distribution of life in the universe are at it in a nutshell that now that we've established that nasa already of course conducted over a dozen successful missions to mars what sets this one apart well this is an upgrade of the sort of improved version of the mars 20 of them are science lab which has been on mars for some years this rover is going to get down and actually see you know with the right test whether there was life on mars possibly even if there could still be some life on mars so it's asking the big question is asking the big question now china the european space agency and the united arab emirates are also sending spacecraft to mars next year this is a crowded field as i started say how much do the objects is different for days missions and when do you get better off to pull all th

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