This Week on Mars
Did we destroy life on Mars before we even detected it?
It would be a very human outcome. To blunder onto another planet and destroy all remaining life there through our experiments to detect it. But is that what the Viking mission accidentally did, decades...
“The Society” video
A new video produced by Puncher & Wattman publishers to accompany my audio reading of the story “The Society” from my book Everyone On Mars. Look out for the audio book, coming in 2025!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDazVb4CoyQ
Another chance for life on Mars?
We began with little green men and now we're wondering about microbes under layers of ice. The human puzzling over whether there is life on Mars, or ever has been, goes on from the pages of classic sci-fi and the lyrics of David Bowie to the latest research about the...
Review by Sue Woolfe of Everyone On Mars
Novelist Sue Woolfe's review in the Newtown Review of Books.https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/larry-buttrose-everyone-on-mars-reviewed-by-sue-woolfe/
Red Planet Blue Planet
“NASA scientrst have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean and that the red planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space.”
Everyone on Mars by Larry Buttrose, Launch Party Sydney 31 July 2024
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Speech by author and urban activist Elizabeth Farrelly launching Everyone on Mars by Larry Buttrose in Sydney, 31 July 2024
“Larry is part Ovid, part Cassandra; Raymond Carver meets Murakami meets David Suzuki.
It’s a vivid and touching book. Buy it. Read it. You’ll love it.”
The Weather Report
The forecast for Mars? Chilly, with a strong chance of a blue sunset. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/
How we could live on Mars
https://theconversation.com/for-all-mankinds-happy-valley-why-a-martian-city-could-well-extend-below-the-surface-221033
THE LITTLE HELICOPTER ON MARS
As the Ingenuity ends its mission on Mars, NASA has released a video about the helicopter and what it's accomplished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Y3rtH_WUg