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1,600 miles from the final resting place
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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

1,600 miles from the final resting place of NASA's Opportunity Rover, is a chasm so...

1,600 miles from the final resting place of NASA's Opportunity Rover, is a chasm so huge
that it's visible from space... Nirgal Vallis. A clue to Mars' former life
etched into the rock. DAVID: It's about 300 miles long. It's narrower on one end
and wider on the other

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1,600 miles from the final resting place
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of NASA's Opportunity Rover,
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is a chasm so huge that it's visible from space...
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Nirgal Vallis.
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A clue to Mars' former life etched into the rock.
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DAVID: It's about 300 miles long.
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It's narrower on one end and wider on the other.
Duration
32 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:31
Uploaded
Jun 05, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
National Geographic,The Garden Productions

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Movie Summary

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as you’ve never seen it before.
We can see these long channels, like a tree, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:15
We can see these long channels, like a tree,
NINA: As planetary geologists we're studying the surface of the planet. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:20
NINA: As planetary geologists we're studying the surfac...
KRISTEN: Water has a huge effect. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:19
KRISTEN: Water has a huge effect.
And actually shift entire landscapes. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:27
And actually shift entire landscapes.
There were floods across the surface. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
There were floods across the surface.
NARRATOR: To cut Nirgal Vallis into the landscape, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
NARRATOR: To cut Nirgal Vallis into the landscape,
A river one and a half times the size of the Nile. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
A river one and a half times the size of the Nile.
Carrying 4,800 cubic meters of water - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
Carrying 4,800 cubic meters of water
DERRICK: You know Percival Lowell might not have been - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
DERRICK: You know Percival Lowell might not have been
NARRATOR: Eight hundred miles west of Nirgal Vallis - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:36
NARRATOR: Eight hundred miles west of Nirgal Vallis
It's 150 miles wide. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
It's 150 miles wide.
NARRATOR: Just over the horizon a feature so enormous - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:19
NARRATOR: Just over the horizon a feature so enormous
It rises literally out of the atmosphere. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
It rises literally out of the atmosphere.
DERRICK: Since the gravity on Mars is just one third that of Earth, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
DERRICK: Since the gravity on Mars is just one third that of...
NINA: If you were to look at Olympus Mons from the side, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
NINA: If you were to look at Olympus Mons from the side,
NARRATOR: Both Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:09
NARRATOR: Both Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris
They hold the story of how Mars once lived. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
They hold the story of how Mars once lived.
In Mars' infancy, raging volcanoes... - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:15
In Mars' infancy, raging volcanoes...
This lava formed a vast plateau - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
This lava formed a vast plateau
The colossal mass of this new rock - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
The colossal mass of this new rock