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Mars attracts

history of science
Rupert Baker
23 February 2021
5 mins

The Mars Perseverance rover is the latest in a long line of attempts to map and understand the Red Planet. Rupert Baker finds some earlier examples in the archives of the Royal Society.

Satellite insights

history of science
Jon Bushell
23 July 2018
4 mins

Jon Bushell ventures into the Royal Society archives and finds the notebooks of Sir Robert Wilson FRS, which tell the story behind the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite project.