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Metal machine with wheels on a rocky landscape

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Precious samples from Mars have been collected. Now it’s up to Congress to get them back.

by : Jonathan Lunine , CNN

Clues about our planet’s ability to support life might come from Mars – yet political storms that have hit Washington, DC, threaten to leave valuable samples stranded on Mars.
Small black sphere in front of a fiery large sphere

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Venus may hold the answers about life we’ve been looking for

by : Jonathan Lunine , Washington Post

Artist's rendition of an exoplanet with an ocean on another world in front of it

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Interstellar Water

by : Jonathan Lunine

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fourth season, "What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring semester.

Mars Rover on dirt

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Mars is suddenly more interesting

by : Jonathan Lunine , CNN

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell’s Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, discusses recent discoveries on Mars in this CNN Online story.

Saturn

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The spacecraft that found for the first time where life could exist now

by : Jonathan Lunine , The Washington Post

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, writes in this Washington Post opinion piece about his work as a scientist on the Cassini mission for the past 27 years.