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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

NASA Mars Robot Family t-shirt — get yours now!

The UAE’s Hope mission

China’s Tianwen 1 mission

Tianwen 1’s space selfie

NASA’s Perseverance mission

Perseverance on twitter: @NASAPersevere

Video of Perseverance's landing

Image taken of the landing taken from Mars orbit!

Perseverance’s first image from the surface

Searching for life on Mars

The non-discovery of Martian life in a meteorite

What does Mars sound like?

NASA Mars rover family portrait

The code in the parachute