Amid a swirl of acronyms, we learned about efforts to search for signs of life on the Red Planet. I thought I’d better warn it.
We’ve sent orbiters and rovers, now we’re drilling into you;
We’ve got WISDOM, Enfys, MOMA, EscaPADE and CLUPI too.
And we’ve Pan Cam’s 3D viewer, to get a better view,
In the hope we shall eventually discover something new.
We’re on a Martian mission, which we’ll doggedly pursue
Until we come across some evidence, some long-elusive clue,
That signs of life exist on Mars (it would be quite a coup,
Though if we ever find some, I don’t know what we’d do…)