The event is held in English.
On Tuesday, November 25, it’s time for after-work at Visualiseringscenter C. We invite you and your friends to take part in a spectacular experience where we combine a light AW menu with a cosmic journey that takes you beyond the stars. Each SpaceNight offers new journeys and new knowledge!
🚀 Program
- Between 18:00 and 19:00, a simple alcohol-free AW menu is available in the restaurant for those who want food, drinks, and mingling. Only 79 SEK.
- At 19:00, we open the doors to the Wisdome Norrköping dome theater, where we take you and your friends on a journey through the universe.
🚀 This month’s theme
Life on Mars? Let’s find it!
For nearly 50 years, we have searched for life on Mars by exploring its surface and studying its ancient past. But Mars’s surface is one of the harshest places in the solar system, bombarded by radiation, baked by intense ultraviolet light, and covered in chemicals that destroy organic matter. If life ever existed on the surface, it’s long gone. But what if we’ve been looking in the wrong place?
Deep underground on Earth, up to 5 kilometers down, scientists have discovered thriving ecosystems of bacteria living in complete darkness. These microbes don’t need sunlight. Instead, they survive on energy from natural radiation that constantly splits water molecules, producing hydrogen gas. Mars has all the same ingredients: intense radiation (even more than Earth), underground ice, and ancient rocks.
Between 2-10 meters below the surface, conditions might be perfect for life, protected from the deadly surface but not too deep to be frozen solid. Intriguing clues support this idea: NASA’s Curiosity rover detects mysterious methane gas appearing and disappearing with the seasons. Something on Mars might be producing it right now. Europe’s ExoMars mission, launching in 2028 with a 2-meter drill, will be our first real attempt to dig deep enough to find out.
This talk explores why life might be hiding just beneath our reach, and what it would mean if we find it.