I am getting out of here, the number of people around me coughing their way through the last day of the conference is increasing exponentially, and I refuse to succumb (cough… too late?)

… I just looked back over the entries from the conference and spotted a recurring theme – Mars…

… I’m not obsessed, it’s just the way things go. Most of the amazing images being sent back happen to be from Mars, and even the Lunar part of the LPSC seems somewhat Mars-focussed. As Ben Bussey – a lunar scientist from the Applied Physical Laboratory told me yesterday, “We’re going to the Moon to find out if we can go further,” and that includes Mars.

So maybe LPSC’s 88th meeting will see me reporting from the surface of the red planet. Well it will certainly look familiar by then thanks to all the images I’ve seen so far…

See you then. Bye.

I am getting out of here, the number of people around me coughing their way through the last day of the conference is increasing exponentially, and I refuse to succumb (cough… too late?)

… I just looked back over the entries from the conference and spotted a recurring theme – Mars…

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