History Channel THE UNIVERSE MARS THE RED PLANET

Its a cold, dry, desolate and inhospitable place.Its air is made up almost entirely of carbon dioxide and there are dust storms that darken the skies for months at a time.Its home to the largest volcano in the solar system and a valley that would make the Grand Canyon look like a streambed.But dispite such other worldly features, its the planet most like Earth and the most likely candidate for eventual human habitation, and with new evidence of vast amounts of frozen water lurking just a few feet below the rusty soil, the possibly of finding at least primitive life on the forth rock from the sun seems exceedingly probable.This DVD charts mans ebdeavours to visit the Red Planet fro NASA missions of the 1950s to map its terrain right through to landing on the surface in 2007.We see incredible footage taken from “Spirit” and “Opportunity”, the robotic vehicles roving Mars that have uncovered ample proof that liquid water was once plentiful on far wetter and warmer than it is today.