{"id":5183,"date":"2017-03-06T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2017-03-06T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:09:19","slug":"ou-academic-hunt-martians-bbc-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/science-mct\/space\/ou-academic-hunt-martians-bbc-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"OU academic hunts for Martians with BBC Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a special week of Mars programmes on BBC Radio 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monicagrady\">Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, Monica Grady<\/a>, presents a 30 minute special programme about the search for life on the Red Planet on <strong>Monday 6 March 2017, 21:00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mars\"><em>Hunting the Martians<\/em><\/a>, Professor Grady explores the balance of evidence for Mars as a habitable and inhabited planet in the past and present. She also looks ahead to forthcoming missions aimed at searching for signs of biology on Mars, with a focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploration.esa.int\/mars\/48088-mission-overview\/\">ExoMars Rover Mission<\/a>, scheduled for launch in 2020.\u00a0 Professor Grady visits the Mars Yard at Airbus Headquarters, Stevenage, where she will experience a prototype rover in action.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Lecturer in the Department of Planetary and Space Sciences at the OU, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/mrp76\">Dr Manish Patel<\/a>, speaks to his colleague, Professor Grady, about the contribution the <a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/science-mct\/space\/ou-landing-mars\/\">ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mission<\/a> to the search life on the Planet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hunting the Martians<\/em> on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 6 March 2017, 21:00, and then available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mars\">BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a special week of Mars programmes on BBC Radio 4, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, Monica Grady, presents a 30 minute special programme about the search for life on the Red Planet on Monday 6 March 2017, 21:00. In Hunting the Martians, Professor Grady explores the balance of evidence for Mars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,240,692,847,1380,1727,1818],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space","tag-academic-excellence","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-dr-manish-patel","tag-exomars-mission","tag-martians","tag-planet-mars","tag-professor-monica-grady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}