E260 - MAVEN's Legacy, Life From Asteroids, Webb's Roasted Exoplanet & Earth With Saturn's Rings

On this episode of Kalam Astro, we celebrate a remarkable chapter in Mars exploration, dig into the origins of life itself, marvel at a scorched world discovered by humanity's most powerful telescope, and dare to reimagine our own planet with one of the solar system's most iconic features.

We begin with a tribute to one of NASA's most accomplished missions — the MAVEN orbiter, which has now been officially retired after years of invaluable service studying the Martian atmosphere. Scientists are hailing it as one of the greatest Mars missions ever flown, and we look back at...