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NARRATOR: Alongside its serious science kit
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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

We designed these rovers to act like our humansurrogates on Mars

NARRATOR:

Alongside its serious science kit, Curiosity has no fewer than 17 cameras. It can even take selfies. ASHWIN: We designed these rovers to act like our human
surrogates on Mars

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NARRATOR: Alongside its serious science kit,
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Curiosity has no fewer than 17 cameras.
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It can even take selfies.
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ASHWIN: We designed these rovers
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to act like our human surrogates on Mars.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
01:00:28
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.

Actors

Nigel Barber
Narrator
Nigel Barber
They have eyes that are about six feet off the ground - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
They have eyes that are about six feet off the ground
NARRATOR: Using half a million images taken by Curiosity and Mars' orbiter's - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
NARRATOR: Using half a million images taken by Curiosity and...
on earth. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:26
on earth.
NARRATOR: But this isn't just for fun. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:26
NARRATOR: But this isn't just for fun.
She's got a laser ablation spectrometer, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
She's got a laser ablation spectrometer,
You know, we can drive round and say, wow, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
You know, we can drive round and say, wow,
And what that allows us to do is to see what Mars is made of. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:05
And what that allows us to do is to see what Mars is made of...
DAWN: Curiosity is designed to take the powder and heat it up - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
DAWN: Curiosity is designed to take the powder and heat it u...
It doesn't tell us everything we want - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:28
It doesn't tell us everything we want
NARRATOR: Organic molecules are complex molecules containing carbon, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:11
NARRATOR: Organic molecules are complex molecules containing...
JAMES: Those molecules are clues. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:13
JAMES: Those molecules are clues.
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...