Mars Rising is a Discovery Channel documentary series exploring the challenges of a manned mission to Mars being faced by international space agencies and in laboratories.

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

166 years, 7 months

Units & Quizzes

6

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The series consists of six episodes that look at the challenges, the obstacles, the fears and the successes of a manned mission to Mars. The series features co-operation with international space agencies including NASA, ESA and Canadian Space Agency, and many experts such as James Garvin, Paul Delaney and Buzz Aldrin. Mars Rising includes critical subjects: spaceship design, possible trajectories, rocket fuel, finding new life forms, new thoughts on astronaut selection and training, space suit engineering, medical training for deep space, blasting through Mars'atmosphere, life support systems and robotics.

Course Currilcum

  • Episode 1 – Journey to the Red Planet Unlimited
  • Episode 2 – Rocket Power Unlimited
  • Episode 3 – Staying Alive Unlimited
  • Episode 4 – The Human Factor Unlimited
  • Episode 5 – Six Minutes of Terror Unlimited
  • Episode 6 – Search for Life Unlimited