Horizon - Mission to Mars: A Horizon Special

[Treeden]

Tonight, BBC2 9pm

Behind the scenes of Curiosity, Nasa's latest mission to investigate the possibility of life on Mars. The agency aims to land a nuclear-powered rover vehicle, which cost $2.5billion to develop, on the surface of the planet by winching it down from a rocket-powered crane, then use it to explore the terrain. The programme also discovers the lessons experts have learned from previous expeditions, many of which ended in failure, and the project's chief scientist John Grotzinger discusses what he hopes the mission will reveal.

Looks interesting!

[MarkMayf]

Thanks for that, I would almost certainly have missed this!

[robbie c]

Thanks for the heads up now set to record

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[rory]

cheers for the nod, id not av known.

[DaveGarland]

Thanks for that. The recorder is set

[Mike73]

Looks like it will be something worth putting the telly on for.

Thanks

[MJWales]

It's good to see that the BBC actually found time to show a decent programme amongst all the hours and hours and hours of ever-so-interesting Olympics nonsense.....

[Naemeth]

I thought it was pretty good. Very informative, and I, as I'm sure all of you, hope that everything goes smoothly on the 6th of August.