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No one has looked for life on Mars for more than 30 years, ever since NASA's Viking missions sent back inconclusive results. Genomics maverick Craig Venter wants to change that. Cracker of the human genome and builder of synthetic life, Venter announced at the Wired Health Conference in New York last week that he wants to send a DNA sequencer to Mars and beam back the genomes of any alien microbes.

Details of this ambitious plan are slim, and Venter has declined to elaborate. But there is reason to think Mars DNA can be found – if we know how and where to look.