A panel of leading scientists has gather in Perth this National Science Week, to discuss the potential for ‘Life on Mars’.

Among the science heavy-hitters will be a group heading to the Pilbara to study rocks similar to those found on Mars.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission program scientist, Mitch Schulte, and Martin Van Kranendonk from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology & the Big Questions Institute at the University of NSW, joined Gareth Parker in the Mornings studio to explain just what they’ll be doing.

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