Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars
With unique access to Nasa, Brian Cox follows Perseverance rover’s search for life on Mars during a critical seven-day period as it undertakes an epic journey across the red planet.
Professor Brian Cox fulfils a childhood dream by going behind the scenes at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), mission control for Mars 2020 – one of the most ambitious missions ever launched that may finally reveal if life ever existed on the red planet.
In 1980, a young Brian Cox wrote to JPL asking for photos from some of their missions to the planets. The pictures they sent him from Voyager and the Viking mission to Mars were a source of inspiration that set him on the path to becoming a physicist.
Now, over 40 years later, he has been granted privileged access to JPL, including key mission areas that are usually off-limits to film crews. Brian spends a week following the team who guide the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter - the first powered aircraft ever sent to another planet - across the surface of Mars during a critical stage of the mission.
Perseverance’s goal is to search for signs of long extinct life on the surface of Mars in an area called Jezero Crater, which, 3.8 billion years ago, was filled by a vast lake. If it finds evidence of that life, it could change everything we know about life in the universe - and even transform our understanding of our own origins.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Brian Cox |
Director | Michael Lachmann |
Producer | Carolina Pacheco |
Producer | Sarah Barker |
Line Producer | Donna Higgins |
Production Manager | Daisy Levy |
Executive Producer | Ashley Potterton |
Executive Producer | Tom Brisley |
Production Company | Arrow Media |
Broadcasts
- Fri 17 Jun 2022 21:00
- Wed 22 Jun 2022 23:45
- Thu 21 Jul 2022 00:45
- Thu 13 Apr 2023 21:00
- Mon 19 Feb 2024 22:00
- Fri 23 Feb 2024 01:50
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