Mars: Dead or Alive
Original title: Mars - Dead or Alive
Duration: 57’
Producer: Mark Davis
Director: Mark Davis
Scientific field: Technologies
Year: 2004
Country: USA
On January 3, 2004, a robot explorer named Spirit landed on Mars, sent its first message home, and made headlines around the globe. In a special program broadcast the night after the landing, NOVA presented the exclusive behind-the-scenes engineering story of NASA’s phenomenally successful Mars Exploration Rover mission, based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “MARS Dead or Alive” is an insider’s look at a brilliant and suspenseful gamble to make robots work on a world 125 million miles from home.
