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Mars Landing 2012: The New Search for Life

Presented by Daily Planet co-hosts Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin, the Red Planet simply won't know what hit it. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), more lovingly known as Curiosity, weighs a metric ton. That's 900 kilos of genius packed into a machine as wide as a Hummer. She's the Einstein of robots, and she has one painstaking question to answer: is there, or has there ever been life on Mars ? From her custom-built heat shield designed to withstand intense 1,600 C degree heat and speeds up to 21,735 km/hr, to her state-of-the-art supersonic parachute that will endure 29,484 kilos of force - Curiosity is set to break all records. For the first time ever, a rover will be able to supply NASA - and the rest of the world - with stunning HD images from 17 different cameras. She will be able to zap rocks with a laser that's as powerful as a million light bulbs focused on the head of a pin. She will drive for hundreds of kilometers and use her massive robotic arm to drill into Gale Crater; a multilayered cake of Martian history.

English
  • Originally Aired August 8, 2012
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Network Discovery
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