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ADAM: This mission, it's a big deal
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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

This mission, it's a big deal. It's the most ambitiousmission we've ever attempted, so...

ADAM: This mission, it's a big deal. It's the most ambitious
mission we've ever attempted, so for 2020 we will take the rover
and put it in places that would be unthinkable
for Curiosity or the airbag landings of history

Full Transcript

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ADAM: This mission, it's a big deal.
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It's the most ambitious mission we've ever attempted,
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so for 2020 we will take the rover and put it in places
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that would be unthinkable for Curiosity
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or the airbag landings of history.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:13
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.
NARRATOR: Unlike on previous missions, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
NARRATOR: Unlike on previous missions,
NARRATOR: Every mission to Mars has faced one huge problem. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:10
NARRATOR: Every mission to Mars has faced one huge problem.
So engineers can't guide the spacecraft from their control room. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
So engineers can't guide the spacecraft from their cont...
It will be able to navigate itself. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:47
It will be able to navigate itself.
NARRATOR: Mars 2020 - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
NARRATOR: Mars 2020
Then it will zero in on its target. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:04
Then it will zero in on its target.
Retro rockets will guide this $2.5 billion rover - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
Retro rockets will guide this $2.5 billion rover
Once on the ground Mars 2020 will carry out its simple - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
Once on the ground Mars 2020 will carry out its simple
to burrow into the planet's surface, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
to burrow into the planet's surface,
DIANA: Is there life or was there life on the surface of Mars? - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:10
DIANA: Is there life or was there life on the surface of Mar...
If Mars 2020 can answer that question - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
If Mars 2020 can answer that question
NARRATOR: As these robot pioneers hunt for life on Mars, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
NARRATOR: As these robot pioneers hunt for life on Mars,
we are laying the groundwork for the next great challenge... - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:16
we are laying the groundwork for the next great challenge...
WOMAN (over radio): We have ignition of - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:20
WOMAN (over radio): We have ignition of
Space exploration, a tough but not impossible thing. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
Space exploration, a tough but not impossible thing.
NARRATOR: But this mission will be together than anything - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
NARRATOR: But this mission will be together than anything
There are two giant hurdles. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
There are two giant hurdles.
There's really no shortage of challenges - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
There's really no shortage of challenges
ADAM: The navigation is hard. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
ADAM: The navigation is hard.
LUJENDRA: It takes about seven months to get to Mars. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:10
LUJENDRA: It takes about seven months to get to Mars.