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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

At first glance, this looks like another dead landscape, but it holds an astonishing...

At first glance, this looks like another dead landscape, but it holds an astonishing clue
to a very different world. A world with a real chance of life. This is one of the most
ancient places on Mars

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At first glance,
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this looks like another dead landscape,
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but it holds an astonishing clue to a very different world.
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A world with a real chance of life.
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This is one of the most ancient places on Mars.
Duration
22 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:15:37
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.
AMY: Some are huge, the size of a city or an entire state. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:10
AMY: Some are huge, the size of a city or an entire state.
We can also see that some craters have been - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
We can also see that some craters have been
MICHIO: Simply by counting and analyzing these craters - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
MICHIO: Simply by counting and analyzing these craters
Each is formed by a single meteorite impact, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
Each is formed by a single meteorite impact,
These craters are like opening doors into the geology of Mars, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
These craters are like opening doors into the geology of Mar...
NARRATOR: These craters are 140 million miles away. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
NARRATOR: These craters are 140 million miles away.
NARRATOR: This is a rock worth 200 times more than gold. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:25
NARRATOR: This is a rock worth 200 times more than gold.
This is NWA 8-6-8-7, it's called a troctolite. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
This is NWA 8-6-8-7, it's called a troctolite.
And I liked it 'cause it was shaped like a star. (laughs) - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
And I liked it 'cause it was shaped like a star. (laugh...
Sometime around May of 2011, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
Sometime around May of 2011,
(camera clicking) - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:19
(camera clicking)
And I loved when I got it in my hands, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:09
And I loved when I got it in my hands,
CARL: In this safe I have unknown meteorites, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
CARL: In this safe I have unknown meteorites,
This is an iron meteorite that fell in Odessa, Texas. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
This is an iron meteorite that fell in Odessa, Texas.
One day I received a shipment from Jay - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
One day I received a shipment from Jay
The first thing that I thought was, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
The first thing that I thought was,
He told me he thought it had shoe shine polish or that - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
He told me he thought it had shoe shine polish or that
And I said, "Hey, would you look at it, but don't cut into it." - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
And I said, "Hey, would you look at it, but don't ...
(saw whirring) - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:18
(saw whirring)
And it took about a year collaborating with other scientists - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:20
And it took about a year collaborating with other scientists