Space engineer talks about her search for life on Mars

Last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted its companion, the downed Ingenuity helicopter, in its final resting place amongst a sea of sand ripples on Mars. The aircraft had suffered irreparable damage in a rough landing, but before that, it had snapped a breathtaking view of the Martian landscape with wind-strewn dunes reaching out towards a field of rocky hilltops. Although the craft will never take flight again, it was a symbol of the “ingenuity” that’s surging through the space industry at the moment. The atmosphere on Mars is a hundred times lighter than on Earth, making flight on the red…

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