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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

Those molecules are clues. We can't quite decipherexactly where they came from but...

JAMES: Those molecules are clues. We can't quite decipher
exactly where they came from but they're so hopeful
that there could be part of the record of what might have
been ancient life on Mars

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JAMES: Those molecules are clues.
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We can't quite decipher exactly where they came from
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but they're so hopeful that there could be
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part of the record of what might have been ancient life on Mars.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:24
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.
The biggest overall find is that Mars was a habitable planet - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
The biggest overall find is that Mars was a habitable planet
organic molecules in the rocks. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
organic molecules in the rocks.
and yet the final proof remains just out of reach. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
and yet the final proof remains just out of reach.
NARRATOR: So strong is our desire to find that life on another planet - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
NARRATOR: So strong is our desire to find that life on anoth...
The experts are saying tonight - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:49
The experts are saying tonight
NARRATOR: But the dream soon began to fracture. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
NARRATOR: But the dream soon began to fracture.
It was so hard to prove the morphology, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
It was so hard to prove the morphology,
AMY: This isn't something obvious like digging up a dinosaur skull. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
AMY: This isn't something obvious like digging up a din...
NARRATOR: The strangest puzzle was the size of the shapes in the rock, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:18
NARRATOR: The strangest puzzle was the size of the shapes in...
(intense music playing) - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
(intense music playing)
NARRATOR: Today, one scientist's work - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
NARRATOR: Today, one scientist's work
Here, volcanic forces - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
Here, volcanic forces
and that attracts astrobiologists - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:06
and that attracts astrobiologists
FELIPE: There is a heavy smell in the air. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:19
FELIPE: There is a heavy smell in the air.
The water pH - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:06
The water pH
Early Mars was quite similar to this kind of environment. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
Early Mars was quite similar to this kind of environment.
NARRATOR: Inside these samples, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
NARRATOR: Inside these samples,
(speaking in native language) - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
(speaking in native language)
Multiplying themselves and colonizing - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:06
Multiplying themselves and colonizing
NARRATOR: The very things that make this environment - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
NARRATOR: The very things that make this environment