NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, courtesy NASA/Discovery Channel
When NASA made a significant discovery about Mars this week, Discovery Channel cameras were rolling for the findings. “Red Planet Rover,” premiering Dec. 18 locally at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel, offers viewers intimate access to what’s going on out there in a special followup to Tuesday’s breakthrough announcement that Curiosity found “organics” on Mars, that is, “the necessary building blocks for life.”
Talk about satellite images. The ride-along with the rover from 100 million miles away offers some spectacular views. Audiences are promised “access unlike anything else seen before,” and “an incredible ride with the smartest, most complex robot ever launched from Earth – a one-ton, nuclear powered, all-terrain vehicle, part geologist, part chemist, part photographer.”
Watch critically: it can be confusing disstinguishing the artists’ renderings and animated bits from the real footage. Here’s from the mission to Mars.
