Mars - Life on the Red Planet? | DW Documentary
In February 2021, the robot "Perseverance" landed successfully on Mars. However, this success was never a given. The film shows the difficult work involved in developing the robot, right up to its successful landing.
The new robot NASA sent to Mars is called "Perseverance". Its mission? To search for evidence of past life on the Red Planet - an important and ambitious endeavor. It took years to design the space probe and its small helicopter drone, called "Ingenuity". This documentary follows the rover's development, right up to its landing in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
The mission proved to be a complete success: the robot landed safely and all the instruments on board functioned smoothly. As a result, "Perseverance" was able to deliver high-resolution images of Mars. But getting there was an arduous journey for all involved.
On site, "Perseverance" takes samples from the crater, which scientists believe was once a river delta. Geological traces of past life - so-called biosignatures - could be hidden in the rock. Eventually, these samples will be brought back to Earth for analysis. Among other things, they could provide insights into possible life on Mars.
The four-pound mini-helicopter "Ingenuity", which traveled in the belly of the rover, is now carrying out a series of test flights. These are the first of their kind to be undertaken on another planet. Another task of "Perseverance" is to test an innovative technology for extracting oxygen from the atmosphere. It is hoped that the gas can be used as fuel -- or to supply oxygen for future manned flights to Mars.
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We are already living in space on a planet called Earth.
OK Sherlock.
best answer EVER :)
DITTO ! WELL SAID 👍👍👍
wooow your right! Far out dude!
Easy to forget how amazing that actually is
When we stop fighting here in earth. When we learn to live with each other. When we learn to love and help each other. When we are not confused
Becoming a spacefaring species will help mankind to see past our differences.
@@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD -- Anybody understand this rubbish comment ?
We can't stop fighting. There are limited resource. And even when quantity is sufficient, we will compare and create perceived differences. Our need for identity will kill us eventually.
agreed
Naive dreaming... The average human is not especially intelligent, and gets himself into all kinds of trouble. Just a few of us are intelligent and creative enough to push human evolution, while the rest of us are just "monkeys with nukes", lol! Life evolve through random mutations, and without natural enemies, we are kinda like a bacteria growing without restraints, so even the bad mutations will flourish. Neanderthals had natural enemies and other challenges that worked as a filter on their evolution, and the smartest ones could create better tools and weapons that gave them a higher chance at surviving than the rest. Humans became so successful that we no longer have such filters on our evolution, and as a lot of us (maybe especially in the western world) choose mates based on how they look and how nice they are to us, intelligence is a pretty small part of the filter that shapes human evolution. Intelligent people probably prefer to start a family with at least reasonably intelligent people, so they can enjoy meaningful conversations together. The not so intelligent people would not understand the priorities and interests of the smart people - and would probably prefer to be with a person of similar intelligence as themselves. As both the smart and stupid people get kids with random mutations, 50% of the kids who have smart parents get the potential to become even smarter than their parents, and 50% of the kids with less intelligent parents have an even smaller potential for intelligence. If this continues without anyone taking measures to push evolution in a good direction (maybe in the form of tax cuts for smart people who have kids, and dumb people who dont have kids), then the problem with people getting themselves into trouble, is just going to get worse and worse. Technically there is little difference between 2 people with bad genes procreating to create a child that will "not thrive", VS genetically engineering a person to have those same genes/weaknesses. People need to start thinking more with their brain instead of letting their emotions tell them what is good or bad. Reality doesnt care what we think or feel, or what our intentions are. All it cares about is that if "X" happens to "Y", then it will result in "Z". No idealism what so ever is involved there. Just cold hard reality - or "truth", if that sounds more "spiritually palatable" 😅
By far one of the best documentary by DW. Keep up the good work DW documentary Team
The single most important And difficult task humanity has ever faced. Colonization of the Moon and Mars.
A lot of the things that we take for granted today are because of going to space. Also there are so many independent variables of events that could end life as we know it and we have no control over it. Should we take care of our planet? Absolutely but we shouldn’t resist to advance as a civilization.
Yes, a selected few want to care for the MOTHER / but vastly: dealing with a bunch of thugs that prefer to burn her down!
Agreed. If we had to depend on all the short-sighted people that can't say more than "let's first solve all problems on earth", we would still be living in caves today.
There never was a "civilization", just thinly-veiled simian brutality, as evidenced by current events. Monkeys with bombs.
Because of the development of the micro computers needed for the guidance of the rockets, we have internet today..
@@tonyelsom6382 sure, also ball point pens too.
As usual DW has made my day. Thank you
DW, my love, thank you for taking us to Mars ❤
Your love? Hmmm
@Andy_Babb Yes, my love 💓!!!
DW consistently does amazing work. Thank you for working so hard to keep us all informed.
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Amazing CGI, yes. None of these photos are real.
Credit goes to DW documentary for allowing us to see such amazing scenes from another world ❤❤
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Now really. Mars is a sand desert. If you enjoy those, go to Sahara, Gobi, Sierra Nevada whatever.
But its all animation and desert. Its all pretend, _not_ _real_ _actual_ footage. Its imaginery cartoons
Never been to Nasa website?
We need to save "Earth". *Let's join hands rather than competing on exploring the Unknow. *Let's stop War and make peace. * Let's be there for each other.
The most beautiful documentary film ever ❤. From Kurdistan region. Keep up DW.
Nice doc! I think the importance of discovering life on Mars is secondary; our main goal in traveling to Mars should be to become a multi-planetary species, regardless of that outcome.
Amazing,informative and high quality documentary ❤.
Didnt even mention Spacex making the ship for it, literally not possible without them but did show 5 sec clip of their promotional video. Frankly much more exciting watching their progress to feel how close we are to sending real amounts of cargo.
That's true. They also stated that its not possible to put 30t of payload on Mars, when that is the plan with Starship. A few words about SpaceX effort to colonize Mars would have been well placed. Particularly also because of the ethical segment on contamination. If there is life on Mars and we bring organisms from Earth, how will we ever detect Martian life? Cross-contamination would make it extremely difficult if not impossible. The Earth microbes might outcompete and displace the Martian ones, a kind of genocide for the planet. Ofcourse we have our values and ensuring the survival of life from Earth (esp. humans) would probably take priority for most but having a discussion about this before it happens and deciding the level of quarantine we want to maintain before colonization begins would be important.
I am a bit confused. I thought there was life on Mars. I can't believe that a mistake might have been made by David Bowie.
An 8 year old kid in Virginia named it Perseverance. He won a NASA competition to decide the rover's name.
Thanks to his Curiosity, he took the Opportunity and ran with it. That's the Spirit.
Well done 👍 ☘️
@@ronald3836 That's the Spirit of Ingenuity
Thnks I like the way Dw broadcast ❤
Great documentary; Technology has come a long way since the 1960's
Except when it comes to landing humans on the moon. Apparently that's just too much after 50 years of technological advances.
What a beautiful, futuristic, informative, programme. THANK YOU to everyone who contributed.
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How about we walk and chew gum people… I see a lot of comments about just taking care of Earth and not worry about Mars. We are doing both pretty well and it would be going backwards for humanity if we stopped now. Dare to dream big and to achieve the previously impossible.
Agreed. I can never understand why so many people view it as a binary choice. As the ethics guy said in the doc, we must take care of Earth, which is our home, even as we explore and settle Mars and beyond. It has never been an either/or situation. We need to do both.
People are negative asf
A lot of people have been brainwashed to think growth means environmental destruction. In fact, greater prosperity is used to protect the environment. We can continue to grow while using cleaner energy, industrial, and agricultural processes. Colonising space will let us turn planet earth into even more of a haven.
.I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
We already live in space, everything exists within the membrane* of 'space'. Except our 'vessel' is a living planet called Earth. *Space warps and 'bends', which makes it a medium/membrane.
Organism within an Organism and so on: reminds me of POE
@@AnaPaulinacom Careful what you wish for... Superdeterministic Consciousness: The unconscious mind "sells" the conscious mind on the concept of Reality. The conscious mind "buys" Reality from the unconscious mind. Forming an illusory feedback system (creating the illusion of choice). The subconscious mind being a broker between both; neurological imbalances occurring when the conscious mind resists unconscious narratives (superdeterministic). Sentience (environmental feedback) propagates consciousness through emergent (microorganisms forming macroscopic life) sensory experiences (environmental exposure), leading to the formation of memories, thus establishing corollary emotional states (dependent on experiences experienced). These emotional markers are activated during recall (remembering). (Intelligence levels also being predetermined) Microorganisms are sentient but don't experience conscious intelligence until emergence is factored; swarming as a collective through emergence - forming greater scales of intelligence (hive-mind/macroscopic life). Everything naturally occurring is Nature, which includes plants, microorganisms, humans (all lifeforms), atoms, energy, stars, planets, black holes, cancer, AIDS, space, Dreams, and Consciousness. (Say what!?) Nature is Emergence. Roughly half of the total cells (~15 trillion!) comprising an average human are other individually sentient organisms (microbiota). Any individual that believes they aren't being wholly influenced by half of their overall cellular matrix; I would encourage them to test that theory, by subtracting half of themselves from existence. the Alchemist -Ø1
@@AnaPaulinacom Superdeterministic Consciousness: The unconscious mind "sells" the conscious mind on the concept of Reality. The conscious mind "buys" Reality from the unconscious mind. Forming an illusory feedback system (creating the illusion of choice). The subconscious mind being a broker between both; neurological imbalances occurring when the conscious mind resists unconscious narratives (superdeterministic). Sentience (environmental feedback) propagates consciousness through emergent (microorganisms forming macroscopic life) sensory experiences (environmental exposure), leading to the formation of memories, thus establishing corollary emotional states (dependent on experiences experienced). These emotional markers are activated during recall (remembering). (Intelligence levels also being predetermined) Microorganisms are sentient but don't experience conscious intelligence until emergence is factored; swarming as a collective through emergence - forming greater scales of intelligence (hive-mind/macroscopic life). Everything naturally occurring is Nature, which includes plants, microorganisms, humans (all lifeforms), atoms, energy, stars, planets, black holes, cancer, AIDS, space, Dreams, and Consciousness. (Say what!?) Nature is Emergence. Roughly half of the total cells (~15 trillion!) comprising an average human are other individually sentient organisms (microbiota). Any individual that believes they aren't being wholly influenced by half of their overall cellular matrix; I would encourage them to test that theory, by subtracting half of themselves from existence. the Alchemist -Ø1
Gracias ❤
Never. We will never live in space. What a pipe dream we barely know what's in the ocean.
I can't believe the narrator mispronounced Lowell. Stunning.
Earth and Mars have been "sneezing" on eachother for ever, life has already been transferred back and forth. (assuming life exist on Mars)
Best documentary channel on KZhead
Mars - Life on the Red Planet? | DW Documentary. 12.4.24. Martian contamination? It happens every time a celestial body hits earth.....
Do both
History Hit
@@qwertyuiop1234567180 What with...a frying pan or hacksaw?
Apparently you don't know or understand french otherwise you would know "arte" they have also a foothold in baden baden and there is cooperation after the war to show friendship between Germany so they have a German channel aswell. One of the finest documentarys you can get.
If you live on Earth, you live in space . Welcome, tune in, and buckle up! Love you the Most !
thank you so much for this amazing, mind blowing documentary.
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Thank you for such a wonderful and professionally produced documentary. 👍
A raw, off-the-cuff look into all things Mars.
Into all things CGI you mean
Argument:- The size of Satellite which can Rover and Hover, is the Equivalent to the size and weight of Life that can exist/survive on Mars if they had food for their existence.
whats the song at the end?
Best documentaries ever. I ve been watching DW documentaries for years. Thanks for keeping them free for everyone to enjoy.
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.I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
I’m about to watch and enjoy
I agree with Alibay, it is indeed unbelievable something that was so close before but now is somewhere out on another world. Surreal.
Space travel is frustratingly hard. It will be a while before we become an interplanetary species. A sign to take care of the planet we already have.
I love perseverance 😢❤
Now we need Apple and Samsung to put SuperCam in our smartphones
We already live in space on planet earth
Where is the actual footage though?
Me parece extraordinario el proyecto como un alcance de la humanidad, pero no entientro porqué teniendolo todo acá, queremos irnos a vivir a un planeta que es un peladero!
try to live in antartica. then come back and tell me if you still want to live in mars
Antarctic is off limits except for guided tours which are heavily restricted. They are hiding what is beyond the icewall of Antarctica.
I'm a Yakutsk native and I can tell you it's very difficult
…how about we make the planet we’re on habitable first…
Best comment ever. Man will abuse mars and then look to move on to another planet. Just like msn is doing with earth.
It is. If it wasn't, you wouldn't be able to leave a comment.
@@CosmicStarDust23 Mars is currently starile and devoid of Life with hardly an atmosphere of its own. To compare with Earth shows how little you understand the subject. Bringing Life to mars to extract resources is not abusive behavior. You can't "abuse" Rocks.
I hear where you're coming from, but these missions are just another way to conduct research that will benefit Earth. For example, efficient carbon capture will be necessary to produce rocket fuel on Mars.
Not to mention that people on Mars will have to live on a planet without fossil fuels, using only solar and nuclear energy
Wow!!!!!
Around 16:40, he sounds so proud that they tested this millions worth of equipment and learnt how to use it... never.
Good video Documentery I am v.i.ghouri Engineer,+space engineer..
The fact is, we are not going to leave earth ever. This is our home and would be ever until we perish.
You already live in space!
i see the soundtrack inspired in the theme of the best sci-fi movie ever made.
What's in here that we have to go live for???
Nothing. It's just the only planet with an atmosphere that's in our solar system. There's no other alternative. I can't see the point myself.
Anyway: on a higher note; that planet is moisture resistant. I need to find my glasses and enjoy myself to a grand cup of coffee before I partake in any further social communities. ✨️
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
18:00 I thought I heard wrong, but I didn´t - the crater is really called Jezero (pronounced "Yezzerro"), which means "lake" in Czech and Serbian and some other languages! So the crater is called after what it used to be. And it has a feature named Séítah in Navajo language! How cool! I love the fact that in space, there are no language borders 🙂
(Not yet) ;)
You need to change the thumbnail question "When will we live in space?". We are living in space.
I really enjoyed the interstellaresque soundtrack on this documentary!
When the longermism is reality.
This is interesting
With the craziness going on Earth, I want to go there now.
Depression will be a problem with the few sunlight reaching March, don't you think so? Realise it's a one-way-ticket. Anyway you will end up in history books on Earth.
These people really are the best among us.
What an extraordinary documentary.
.I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
Earth lives in space. Gravity and mass is what keeps us weighed down, the human body battles the forces of nature to grow. Planets form with water.. that’s how organic life grows and living things come to be.
Good implied meaning has given by DW documentary. Quite good documentary.
What's the implied meaning ?
Mars Attacks! was even better.
@@gerryhouska2859”Ack. Ack ack! Ack ack ack ack!!!” “Wow, he just made the international sign of the doughnut.” 🍩
I'm not excited at all, even if technically humans can immigrate to Mars, it's going to take a few decades for that to happen, and even if it does, it's not something that ordinary people like us can enjoy and experience.
Spoiler alert: we can't. Our robots will be the only human presence on mars for long after daddy Elon is gone.
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
Amazing
I like how this portrays the French doing almost all the work but in reality NASA has done most of the work and footing the bill.
You interpret a lot into it. And i guess you didn't listen too carefully. I was happy to get a documentary with a different style where some new voices from the collaboration had their say. There's plenty of material from NASA out there on Mars express. Coming from DW, I don't find it surprising or even questionable that this documentary gave a European viewpoint.
Thank you for this movie “Science Fiction + Reality”. The producing company “NASA”. The actors performed wonderfully. “NASA scientists”...it deserves an Oscar...
Please make more videos on space and colonization of space.
.I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
@@waxogen any proof?I know you are just speculating.
The planet we are on right now is literally perfect. How about we just look after it. I know, crazy right? 🤯
Wild strawberry fields
We are looking after it. But we still need to look forward.
Where are the dinosaurs ?
You do realize this planet will be destroyed by the sun one day right?
One thing does not rule out the other. Besides, due to the beauty of evolution, we can't be completely sure if our planet is perfect for life, or if life evolved to be perfect for the planet. Either way, we can at least be sure that our planet is better for life than most out there, and we don't really have the time to evolve to be perfect for another (unless we genetically modify people) so earth certainly should always be considered the crown jewel in our collection no matter how many other worlds we settle.
Thats nice
We still have plenty of breakthroughs in tech needed here on earth
True but some breakthroughs come exactly through what they do in space! Look it up and you will understand :)
I love space documentaries
“When will we live in space?” - The avatar title for this video. 😂 I hate to break it to you guys, but already do live in space.
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
I hate to break this to you but that BS, they can pass the firmament
Could you imagine the lengths and bounds the human race would be if all these resources were instead invested in this planet first? Oh my 😮
They have been. Imagine if we didn't rely so much on governments that flush resources down the toilet.
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
E pensar que começamos la nas cavernas sem nem saber falar e chegamos a isso......os terráqueos são incriveis......
We won't
Earth was habitat for all living organisms lived included human beings ❤❤❤❤
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
We are already living in SPACE.
We may be unique but not alone in the universe
Mars is not space - Mars is in space as much as Eearh is...
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
I'm happy here on earth,i would never go somewhere else.
You can't go anywhere else. They is no such thing as to going into space. Do you not know about the Firmament. Don't believe the lies they tell you. Hillary Clinton said several times in her speeches that one day we will break through that glass ceiling meaning the Firmament. It's even written in the Bible.
Wow
The real scandal is that we haven't gone icefishing yet on Europa. We've known about the potential for life there for DECADES.
Amzing DW Always best
There's already an intelligence at work on Mars: us. Living on Mars is a matter of when and how - not if. 🚀
The ‘when’ is in the past. Successive solar Novae have blasted all the inner planets a little farther away from the Sun every 12000 years, and like Mars, will eventually strip Earth of both atmosphere and water. The good news is that there’ll be no more ridiculous talk of either global warming or blaming man made carbon dioxide for our warming planet (a precursor to the next ice age, due rather soon!).
Wrong. Our robots will be the only human presence on mars for a long long time. Going to mars is a death sentence and no reasonable human would go and no reasonable company would send someone to die in space.
couple of decades from now, it'll be mind blowing for those who imagines this comes to reality, humans living on Mars that is. Its pretty much inevitable..
I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (Government confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
One very Important question to answer that IS THEIR ENOUGH AIR FOR HELICOPTER TO FLY?
Before we start living in space, we must first survive Earth.
Earth surviving us humans you mean, think before you talk. ✌️ ☘️
@@deeppurple883 The equivalent of what I wrote: Before embarking on the journey to live in space, we must first ensure our survival on Earth. Perhaps you should take some English language lessons. Read before you write.
First and Foremost - Take care of Earth... Then think about other planets that life on them is inevitable
If that really is the approach we'd never go anywhere else. We need to do both. The choice isn't binary.
B-E-A-Utiful ❤
Beautiful Documentary, thank you 💫
Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)
.I grew grass on uranium mine tailings, (confirmed) and I can grow grass on the surface of Mars
@@waxogen can u grow grass on my skull
Money going to space = good Money going to war = bad
not even the youngest at this point, hope we never get the chance as species to live outside the planet
Why not? More advanced tech will improve lives.
I suppose you regret that people ever left their caves.
I love how she tweets her progress 😊
a bit ironic. while we explore space for life, we destroy life on earth -- our very dearest planet where we live and breathe together under the same atmosphere. this is our political, country boundary, war like economic competitive humans.
Space doesn't exist
Too scary to think that we live on a rock dragged by a star around and around an enormous galaxy which is hurtling through an infinite universe built by no one and no thing for an unknown reason.
A fascinating video. Keep it up.
Until they figure out gravity, never
The launches are in the US and they are talking about decimal measures, which make clearly more sense, than talking about stones and rabbits.
We need a better protection against Solar radiation than just the shield NASA has proposed. We can build a self-magnetizing cable around the equator that uses the same Solar energy that it is protecting against. Might as well put that sky elevator in while we're at it. It could be like the "Halo" game, with its own orbiting habitat.
The first rule of intelligent design is that it is intelligent. 🧠 That means it is efficient. Whatever forces are developing life in the Universe are not going to waste energy going around and manhandling things. The systems we refer to in scientific terms were developed long ago.
Even we don't know about deep in our ocean.
my favorite Documentary DW