Ultimate Mars Challenge FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

In its search for life beyond Earth, NASA employs a "sky crane" maneuver to land the Curiosity rover on Mars.

Mars may once have harbored life—and may harbor it still. The landing of the rover Curiosity means that the most sophisticated robot ever is roving the Mars surface. Will NASA's bold mission and this marvel of technology answer some of our biggest questions and usher in a new golden age of exploration? NOVA goes behind the scenes on NASA's quest to solve the riddles of the red planet.

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[robertroylomax]

The word MAY is synonymous with the word POSSIBILITY.
Therefore there is absolutely NO rock solid certainty

[colinleat]

As a life long enthusiast and lover of all things Space Science 🔭, I can't get enough of these docs. I love PBS and all the different documentaries about the various Space, Earth, Biology, and history ❤️🖖😁🤘

[unkifa]

Wonderful video. Love seeing the NASA engineers so proudly talking about their components for curiosity.

Also, I remember being a little kid hearing the epic PBS Nova intro music and getting excited to see some awe-inspiring science and it's so incredible to think you're still producing such amazing stuff so many decades later.

[lindsayalisonstevens]

OMG, the guy at 36:51 sounds exactly like Egon Spengler from the animated version of ‘Ghostbusters’ from the 80s. He even has glasses too 😂😂😂

[bils]

I had the honor of meeting Sami Asmar at 'The Dish' at Parkes NSW, Australia. He was there on behalf of NASA. We all celebrated the landing. Cannot believe its been more than a decade.

[Pampilici]

Are we alone?! We cannot stand those we share Earth with!

[KapilaRathna-zgug]

How i could not thought address my thanks these great and intelligent peaple they are very tired without food and sleepy but i have only one word it s thank iam very sorry havent anyway thank you for all activities and u .tube and others blessing with buddha තෙරුවන් සරනයි දෙව් පිහිටයි

[alexanderizquierdo]

The surface of Mars. It teaches us many things in the vast world of the Manireris valley and the knowledge, of this vast microbiological, world every 50, meters It shows us the fascinating world of Mars 🛰️

[Saprimentozz_Big_trap]

Oh i love you Space. The Mars planet this fugere all human civilization

[gnanagowryvithiyananthan]

After watched this video, i get to know many things about Mars and Mars mission, excellent job 👍

[jimczerwinski]

Line over malfunction is well known in the Skydiving community.. the line sears the canopy as it rolls across the fabric, causing the tearing. I’ve even had one myself. All they had to do was talk to a skydiver that jumped in the round canopy days.

[davidhepburn]

You Tube should come with a disclaimer "entertainment purposes only"!!!

[yazps]

Thanks and these colours sand of Mars reminds me of desert sands as Africa...and what if the first marsians were as dark coloured skin as African people and so much knowledge have been lost a billions years ago.
Well questions enough and have good times exploring.

[ramixpsymaster]

when it comes to technology issues, they need to contact Koenigsegg for solutions

[TheRoosje]

THE BEST NAME EVER! Curiosity ❤. Well chosen because who isn't curious to know what is what up there? I follow curiosity from very close by. Great job! Bring some good news Curio, we relay on you 🥰. Greetings from Netherland 🫡.

[skyloveglobalnelsonbarbonc]

Be curioss be fury to ixplore planet amazing rover👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽

[ashleyhouse]

Very interesting video and an amazing mision but I really don't get the obsession with finding evidence of extra-terrestrial life. We don't exactly cherish the abundance of it on planet Earth.

[bobeden]

shame the sky crane could not have a controlled landing, hey?

[ateviel]

Such amazing achievements of our human civilization and scientific efforts are truly awe-inspiring. 🤩If only humans could stop making war and start doing even more science, that would be the civilizational utopia. 🥲

[eenayeah]

*makes a science documentary*

*still uses imperial units despite NASA already using metric*