Green-blue sunsets and other Mars rover stories

Mars appears red and lifeless. Was Mars once a blue planet like Earth?

If so, why is it no longer so? What happened? What does this mean for the future of Earth?

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover missions, Spirit and Opportunity, have been operating on Mars for 15 years. Part of this is the miniaturised Mössbauer spectrometer (MIMOS). MIMOS detects only the element iron, but does so with great precision. This enables insights into the history of Mars.

Research and development (R&D) on MIMOS is currently taking place at the Institute of Coordination Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover.

These and other questions will be discussed.

MIMOS and various terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples will be on display, including a piece of a Martian meteorite.