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Welcome To Mars

Welcome To Mars

On January 3, 2004, a compact rover named Spirit, cushioned inside a pyramid of balloons, hurtled through the martian atmosphere and crash-landed on the dusty surface of Mars. Minutes later, Spirit sent its first message home. The elation of the assembled scientists, along with the much more involved engineering story leading up to the landing, were captured by NOVA producer Mark Davis in his popular documentary MARS Dead or Alive. That elation is the starting point for the sequel, Welcome to Mars.

Welcome to Mars follows the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity from the second they crash-land on the planet to many months into their ongoing mission. Davis covered the story from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as it unfolded and provided a unique, behind-the-scenes take on this voyage of discovery, whose primary goal is to find evidence that liquid water once existed on Mars.

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Cosmos Documentaries

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Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the...
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A voyage through space and time with Professor Stephen Hawking. The series charts Professor Hawking’s quest...
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A fantastic Horizon (one of my favorites) that looks into the research on Dark Matter (with a twist of comedy...
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In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest...
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After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won’t just land on the...
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Scorched by their proximity to the sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds. One gouged with craters from...
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Without the moon, humans wouldn’t exist. Life, if it had started at all, would be in the earliest stages of...
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A stellar explosion, the supernova is the sensational death of a star. It can shine as bright as 100 billion...
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250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was...
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The great PBS science series Nova scores another hit with Mars: Dead or Alive, capturing all the excitement...
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On January 3, 2004, a compact rover named Spirit, cushioned inside a pyramid of balloons, hurtled through the...
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The Mandelbrot set – someone has called it the thumb-print of God – is one of the most beautiful and...
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For centuries scientists and philosophers have marveled at an eerie coincidence. Mathematics, a creation of...

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