Nova Ultimate Mars Challenge

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The new Nova program Ultimate Mars Challenge is really interesting. It does a really good job of going over the science and engineering challenges, and concludes with the initial results. I hope the exploration and science results of this mission ultimately will have a profound impact on politics+religion. Unfortunately, the success of the mission was overshadowed by election, but, in days to come, when it sinks in that there is another world, where liquid water apparently flowed in abundance, ...