Nova

Season 46 Episode 13: The Planets: Mars

51 Seasons Jul 24, 2019 TV-PG 54m 8.2

The dry, red planet Mars was once a blue water world studded with active volcanoes. But if it once had many of the ingredients necessary to form life, how far along might that process have gotten?

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Season 46 Episodes:

Episode 1 Pluto and Beyond

1. Pluto and Beyond

Aired: Jan 2, 2019

Follow the New Horizons spacecraft as it makes its historic flyby of one of t...

Episode 5 Rise of the Rockets

5. Rise of the Rockets

Aired: Feb 13, 2019

Private companies develop new ways to allow for more human activity in space;...

Episode 6 The Next Pompeii

6. The Next Pompeii

Aired: Feb 20, 2019

Assessing the risk of a potential eruption of an ancient supervolcano under t...

Episode 7 Saving the Dead Sea

7. Saving the Dead Sea

Aired: Apr 24, 2019

Scientists, engineers, and political leaders devise a plan to save the Dead S...

Episode 8 Inside the Megafire

8. Inside the Megafire

Aired: May 8, 2019

Scientists try to determine the cause for the increasing megafire threat by e...

Episode 9 First Horse Warriors

9. First Horse Warriors

Aired: May 15, 2019

The advent of horse riding changed the course of human history and the geneti...

Episode 10 Lost Viking Army

10. Lost Viking Army

Aired: May 22, 2019

Bioarchaeologists investigate a ninth-century mass grave in a rural English v...

Episode 11 Back to the Moon

11. Back to the Moon

Aired: Jul 10, 2019

Fifty years after humans first stepped foot on the moon, engineers, scientist...

Episode 13 The Planets: Mars

13. The Planets: Mars

Aired: Jul 24, 2019

The dry, red planet Mars was once a blue water world studded with active volc...

Episode 14 The Planets: Jupiter

14. The Planets: Jupiter

Aired: Jul 31, 2019

Jupiter's gravitational force made it a wrecking ball as it barreled through ...

Episode 15 The Planets: Saturn

15. The Planets: Saturn

Aired: Aug 7, 2019

NASA's Cassini probe explores Saturn's icy rings and moons, capturing ring-mo...

Episode 17 Why Bridges Collapse

17. Why Bridges Collapse

Aired: Oct 16, 2019

Examines if new engineering techniques can help prevent deadly bridge collaps...

Episode 18 Look Who's Driving

18. Look Who's Driving

Aired: Oct 23, 2019

Exploring the possibility of self-driving cars, including whether they could ...

Episode 19 Rise of the Mammals

19. Rise of the Mammals

Aired: Oct 30, 2019

A new trove of fossils reveals how mammals took over after an asteroid wiped ...

Episode 21 Decoding da Vinci

21. Decoding da Vinci

Aired: Nov 13, 2019

A visit to Florence, Italy to explore how Leonardo da Vinci used science, fro...

Episode 22 The Violence Paradox

22. The Violence Paradox

Aired: Nov 20, 2019

A journey through history and the human mind to explore violence, and how a m...

Episode 23 Animal Espionage

23. Animal Espionage

Aired: Nov 27, 2019

Camera traps and drones offer an up-close look at animals without disturbing ...

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