Looking for Life on Mars

Follow NASA’s Perseverance mission from launch to Jezero Crater in an ambitious search for evidence of ancient Martian life and samples for Earth.

This full-length film is available through the official YouTube player supplied by NOVA PBS Official. Its listed runtime is 54 minutes.

Space documentaries combine distant observation, physical models and demanding engineering. Notice which measurements support the central idea, how uncertainty is communicated and how instruments limit what can be known.

A useful way to approach the film is to begin with its central subject, then test each wider claim against the evidence and voices presented on screen.

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