Mars has long been a canvas for our imagination, but new hints of possible life push those ideas into a new reality. What happens when scientific discoveries collide with human hopes, fears, and ambitions for the Red Planet? In a new episode of DR’s podcast series Supertanker, created and hosted by Carsten Ortmann, astrophysicist Tina Ibsen joins anthropologist Nina Holm Vohnsen — member of the Space Centre’s steering committee — to explore how potential life on Mars reshapes our ideas about exploration, colonisation, and the very meaning of “life”

Find the episode here (date: 1. december 2025)