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NARRATOR: Three and a half billion years ago
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Mars: One Day on the Red Planet

Three and a halfbillion years ago Gale Crater was filled with water. Today it's a...

NARRATOR: Three and a half
billion years ago Gale Crater was filled with water. Today it's a dried-up lake bed. But it conceals clues to just how habitable Mars
might have once been

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NARRATOR: Three and a half billion years ago
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Gale Crater was filled with water.
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Today it's a dried-up lake bed.
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But it conceals clues
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to just how habitable Mars might have once been.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:34
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.
Combing its surface is a one ton mobile science lab. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:06
Combing its surface is a one ton mobile science lab.
The only Rover at work on Mars today... - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:08
The only Rover at work on Mars today...
DIANA: Curiosity's an incredible rover. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
DIANA: Curiosity's an incredible rover.
When I describe it that way it just sounds like - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:06
When I describe it that way it just sounds like
MELISSA: Curiosity is a huge beast of a rover. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:07
MELISSA: Curiosity is a huge beast of a rover.
She's powered by plutonium that gives her a quantum energy source. - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:14
She's powered by plutonium that gives her a quantum ene...
GRUNSFELD: Curiosity is so big - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:12
GRUNSFELD: Curiosity is so big
NARRATOR: Alongside its serious science kit, - Mars: One Day on the Red Planet 00:19
NARRATOR: Alongside its serious science kit,
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