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Tech Tuesday with Theunis: Life on Mars

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The heavens have captured our imaginations since we left the caves and stood under the night sky, appreciating the starry firmament's unknown & vast majesty...Fast forward to today and as a species we've landed on the moon, we've managed to build, launch & operate the International Space Station, we have Voyager exploring the outer reaches of our solar system & of course the 6 iterations of Rovers collecting data, images and specimens on Mars. Theunis Jansen van Rensburg of Bandwidth Blog and Keeno Lee discuss how one of these intrepid robots has collected a rock specimen that might provide evidence that life once existed on Mars...
8 Aug 2024 English South Africa Tech News

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