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Course Description

Exploration of Mars and the Search for Life | Learn about the search for life on Mars from early telescopic observations through modern spacecraft and coming human exploration. Examine where else in the solar system might life exist, and whether Mars is that place. $33 includes $32 fee.

Learner Outcomes

Discuss how the technical sophistication of observations has improved knowledge of Mars, eliminated false early ideas, and continues to inspire with the possibility that Mars could support life; Examine how and why Mars is very different from, and yet in some ways similar to, Earth, how those similarities and differences have changed as both planets have evolved; Discuss what that means for the possibility that life once did and perhaps still does exist on Mars; Explore why and how the strategy of searching for life on Mars has evolved over time and what this means for how the search will continue in the future; Assess the conditions under which life can arise and persist on a planet, whether those conditions exist on Mars, and the difficulties of searching for evidence of existing and past life on Mars.
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