Tamara Davis is a cosmologist who is is wildly excited by the NASA rover landing on Mars.
She says its only a matter of time until astronauts visit Mars and that before long there will also be a colony on the Red Planet.
Tamara also studies black holes, dark energy, dark matter and is helping manage the Dark Energy Survey, involving over 400 researchers on four continents.
And is leading a multi-million-dollar Laureate Fellowship to explore why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Over two episodes, Catalyst explores what it will take to get to and live on Mars and why scientists think life could once have existed there and may still do.
Mars: Our Second Home? Tuesday February 23 - 8:30pm
Mars: The Hunt for Life Tuesday March 2 - 8:30pm
Tamara is a presenter on ABC TV's Catalyst
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