I have to say this latest expedition to Mars has really caught my imagination. Way more so than the previous voyages to the red planet and I think it’s mainly down to how NASA have approached the whole thing:

Take its ‘mission’ for example. According to their website it is essentially to ‘find out whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms. In other words is the planet habitable?’ You can’t get more ambitious than that.
And of course Will.i.am got to beam his new...