MARS Dead or Alive
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Adult
- Subjects: Astronomy, Earth Science
- Produced By: WGBH
- Year: 2003
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 60m
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Go inside NASA's risky field trip to the red planet in this tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle of the $820 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project. Beginning a year before launch, NOVA's cameras follow MER scientists and engineers through a gauntlet of potentially fatal problems. Then, seven months later, experience the final nail-biting minutes of the journey, as Spirit successfully lands on Mars and begins sending back its first spectacular images of the Martian landscape. Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; closed captions; and video descriptions.