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Next week a Russian probe called Phobos-Grunt is due to be launched towards the tiny moon of Mars. Piggybacking on the Phobos-Grunt mission is something called the LIFE experiment, or the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. This mission, supported by the Planetary Society, is to help provide evidence for the panspermia (or transpermia) hypothesis. (read full story)