History Channel
Season. 5 Episode. 2
http://www.history.com/shows/the- universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29
EXCERPTS:
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
APRIL 15, 2010
"I believe we can send humans to Mars
and return them safely to earth.
And a landing on Mars will follow." -Obama
Dry Lightning on Mars
or Static Electricity.
"Once you have lightning,
You've got a new source of energy
That can effect your chemistry
and alter thing
in the atmosphere,
even on the surface,
at some level."
There's about 100 times
as much H2O in Mars' polar ice caps
as in all five of north America's Great Lakes.
Hematite, a combination of iron and oxygen
Hematite shows that ancient mars
could have had flowing water.
Surveyors mission is over but today
Five probes are taking pictures
and measurements of Mars.
Europe's Mars Express
Circum-navigates the Equator
NASA's Mars Odyssey
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter / MRO, soar over the poles.
In the spring of 2008
Five probes are joined by Six
NASA's PHOENIX LANDER.
May 25, 2008.
Phoenix Lander ends a nine-month space journey.
SNOW on Mars.
Is Mars still hot in its interior?
Ir certainly is.
And there's no way that Mars has completely cooled off.
VIKING, 1976
On Nov. 2, 2008,
Phoenix shuts down
for the last time.
As the Martian winter deepens,
frozen CO2 piles up
and imprisons the probe
in a tomb of dry ice.
Water exists on the surface of the Earth
only because the atmospheric pressure
pushing down on it.
These 2009 satellite pictures
seemed to show something impossible,
Flowing liquid water on the surface (of mars).
Like the 19th century Canals
And the 20th century Face,
The Martian Bigfoot is 21st century
trick of light.
Martian meteorite
ALH84001
4.1 billions years ago
when If you thought
Mars was habitable,
that would be the time,
you would choose, because
we think there was water
flowing on the surface
and it was warmer and it was thick atmosphere.
Methane on Mars.
On Earth, 90% of methane
comes from bacteria.
Next Mars Rover
"Dubbed "CURIOSITY" will launch
in the fall of 2011
and land in 2012.
Its the size of small car.
