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The Sky at Night team investigate the latest science in thehunt for extraterrestrial life. Scientists have never been moreobsessed with finding aliens than they are right now. Andthey're using the most advanced engineering and technology tolook in some pretty weird and wonderful places across theuniverse.Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock visits Professor Mark Sephtonat Imperial College London – one of the scientists leading onthe Perseverance Rover mission to Mars. This is the firstmission to bring samples of rock from another planet back toearth, and Mark shows how they use images sent from the roverto decide the best places to take the precious samples. Hereveals the latest technology used to analyse the samples ofMartian rock for signs of life.April 2023 sees the launch of amajor European Space Agency mission to explore habitability onJupiter's icy moons, with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer akaJuice. Professor Chris Lintott meets leading scientistProfessor Michele Dougherty. She reveals why frozen worlds suchas Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the next hot targets foralien life, and what this has to do with a game of squash.Ourin-house stargazing expert Pete Lawrence tells us how thismonth we can see Venus in a dramatic scene alongside the Hyadesand Pleiades clusters. And George Dransfield is in Chile,searching for earth-like planets outside our solar system. Welearn how these potentially habitable exoplanets areidentified, as she carries out essential telescope maintenancein the Atacama Desert. Back in the UK, she meets Dr SeanMcMahon – an astrobiologist at Edinburgh Universityinvestigating how reflected light could be used to search forlife on exoplanets in the future.