I’ve just posted a new(ish) piece on Medium to coincide with the launch of the Mars 2020 mission, that takes a risk innovation look at the search for life on the Red Planet.
It’s newish as the original was published in the journal Astrobiology a couple of years ago. The new version here has been tweaked a little.
Read it here:
Life on Mars, Astrobiology, and Thinking Differently about Risk
As the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover sets out on its seven month voyage to Mars in the hope of finding signs of life, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on the nature of risk in our search for extraterrestrial life.
Medium/Edge of Innovation, July 30, 2020
