Horizon · SEASON 50
Mission to Mars
Episode 2 · 2012-07-30
- Documentary
Episode overview
Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days time, the nuclear-powered vehicle - the size of a car - will be winched down onto the surface of the Red Planet from a rocket-powered crane. That's if things go according to plan: Mars has become known as the Bermuda Triangle of space because so many missions there have ended in failure. The Curiosity mission is the most audacious - and expensive - attempt to answer the question: is there life on Mars?
60 minutes
Season 50 episodes
1. The Truth About Looking Young2012-07-23
2. Mission to Mars2012-07-30
3. Eat, Fast and Live Longer2012-08-06
4. How Big Is the Universe?2012-08-27
5. How Small Is the Universe?2012-09-03
6. Defeating the Superbugs2012-09-10
7. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works2013-03-14
8. How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery2013-03-21
9. The Truth about Taste2013-03-28
10. The Age of Big Data2013-04-04
11. The Secret Life of the Cat2013-06-13
12. Little Cat Diaries2013-06-14
13. Fracking: The New Energy Rush2013-06-19
14. Swallowed by a Black Hole2013-06-26
15. What Makes us Human?2013-07-03
16. The Truth About Personality2013-07-10
