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Life's Little Essential
Images: (waterfall, iceberg) © Peter Tyson; (Titan) © NASA, Voyager 2
Ask the Expert
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"Live" From Mars
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Behind the Scenes
Images: (Mark Davis et al) Courtesy of Mark Davis/MDTV Productions; (rover lab, parachute, rover, launchpad, mission control) © WGBH/NOVA/MDTV Productions
Man on a Mission
Images: (Squyres) © Diane Bollen; Illustrations: © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas; (all other photos) © NASA/JPL
Mars From Afar
Images: (the planet, terrain) © NASA/JPL; (canyon) © NASA/NSSDC, Viking Orbiter; (volcano) © NASA/NSSDC, Viking 1 (sand dunes, crater, ice cap, faulting, layered rocks, gullies, clouds, mesas, landslide, plains, dust storms) © NASA/JPL/MSSS; (frozen water) Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University; (Mars globe) © NASA/USGS
Mars Up Close
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Anatomy of a Rover
Images: (illustrations) © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas
Design a Parachute
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From Launch to Landing
Video: © 2002 Cornell University. Animation by Dan Maas. All rights reserved. This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the U.S. government under Prime Contract # NAS7-1407 between the California Institute of Technology and NASA. Copyright and other rights in the design drawings of the Mars Exploration Rover are held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA, JPL, and Caltech.
TV Program Description
Images: (Is There Life on Mars?) © NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University; (Welcome to Mars) © NASA/JPL; (MARS Dead or Alive) © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas
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Written, Produced and Directed by
Mark Davis
Edited by
Nathan Hendrie
Associate Producer
Anna Davis
Narrated by
Neil Ross
Music
Tom Phillips
Camera
Robert Jaye
Additional Camera
John Beck
Brian Dowley
Marten Kaufman
Mike Kennel
Sound
K.C. Clayton
Paul Gramaglia
George Shafnacker
Robert Schuck
Jayme Roy
Douglas Alexander Arnold
Additional Editing
Brian Feeney
Jen Siebenmann
Heydar Adel
Gaffer
John Monsour
MER Animation
Maas Digital LLC
© 2002 Cornell University
All rights reserved.
This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology, sponsored by the United States Government under Prime Contract
#NAS7-1407 between the California Institute of Technology and NASA. Copyright
and other rights in the design drawings of the Mars Exploration Rover are held
by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA,
JPL, and Caltech.
Additional Animation & Graphics
Maas Digital LLC
Anna Davis
Mars Visualizations
Kees Veenenbos
Online Editor and Colorist
Mark Steele
Audio Mix
John Jenkins
Mars Images, Archive & Additional MER footage
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Kennedy Space Center
Arizona State University
Smithsonian Institution
USGS
Landing day footage
courtesy of NASA TV.
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Special Thanks
Jim Rice
Rossman Irwin
Stephen Kulczycki
Colleen Sharkey
Matt Golombek
Tim Parker
Jennifer Harris Trosper
Tom Shain
For continuing coverage of Mars exploration, check out NPR's "Science Friday" at www.sciencefriday.com.
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