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On its first try, China’s Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades

  Picture: CNSAChina’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.More...

So a helicopter flew on Mars for the first time. A space physicist explains why that’s such a big deal

 Picture: NASA/APOn Tuesday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from...

Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it

The Perseverance Rover (Mars 2020) installed within the upper stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket that will send it to Mars from...

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

The red planet. It may hold no life, but is it dead? NASA/JPL Thanks to the audio recordings of distant rumblings on Mars released last week...

Our long fascination with the journey to Mars

Signs of life on Mars? These are the tracks of NASA’s Curiosity rover exploring the Martian landscape. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS It’s touchdown again on Mars, with NASA’s InSight probe due...

Five in a row – the planets align in the night sky

Enjoying the planets lined up in a row.Derek Bruff/flickr For the second time this year, the five brightest planets can be seen at the same...

Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of Mars

Mars’ south polar cap, as seen from Mars Global Surveyor.Buried beneath, we now know, is a lake of liquid water.  NASA/JPL/MSSS We now know that...

Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars

InSight aims to figure out just how tectonically active Mars is, and how often meteorites impact it. NASA When we look up at Mars...

A brief history of Martian exploration – as the InSight Lander prepares to launch

An artist’s rendition of the InSight lander- which will collect data on what’s inside the planet Mars. NASA Roughly every two years Mars and...

The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars

A view from the ‘Kimberley’ formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.The strata in the fore- ground dip towards the base of...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.