Explore Mars yourself
NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to give us normal people a chance to get involved in Mars exploration.
The Be a Martian website allows members of the public to help scientists perform research tasks such as improving maps of the red planet.
"We're at a point in history where everyone can be an explorer," Doug McCuistion, director of Nasa's Mars Exploration Program, said.
"With so much data coming back from Mars missions that are accessible by all, exploring Mars has become a shared human endeavour.
"People worldwide can expand the specialised efforts of a few hundred Mars mission team members and make authentic contributions of their own."
Users can count craters on Mars - there's a lot of 'em - and also view hundreds of thousands of pictures of the Red Planet - if you have time.
You can also get your questions answered by Mars experts.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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