Why Mars?

Watch Nat Geo's MARS Monday 11/14 at 9/8c: http://makemarshome.com/
Watch Michael and Kevin's MARS videos: https://youtu.be/KUddy8RGwns?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf
*Thanks to Nat Geo for sponsoring this video*

Michael's Video: https://youtu.be/KUddy8RGwns?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf

Kevin's Video: https://youtu.be/5_MhErD-EA0?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf

Great Mars video by PBS Space Time
https://youtu.be/jowVq81AgGw

Humans to Mars: 50 Years of Mission Planning
http://history.nasa.gov/monograph21/humans_to_Mars.htm

The Mars Project
https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Project-Wernher-Von-Braun/dp/0252062272

Mars Extreme Expeditionary Report
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/1372Trotti.pdf

Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium
http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/astro_early/id/8470

Muscle Atrophy
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64249main_ffs_factsheets_hbp_atrophy.pdf

Terraforming Mars
http://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/420/239

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
(Included in our Curiosity Box!)
http://curiositybox.com

Great talk by Dr. Robert Zubrin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQSijn9FBs

A Trip to Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7VImsSMQM

Martian Ice Caps
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chasma-boreale-and-the-north-polar-ice-cap

HAVOC
https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/branches/space-mission-analysis-branch-smab/smab-projects/havoc/

Spirit Rover Stuck
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/freespirit.html

Planetary Ecosynthesis
http://esseacourses.strategies.org/EcosynthesisMcKay2008ReviewAAAS.pdf


**CREDITS**


Written, directed, hosted and edited by Jake Roper
http://twitter.com/jakerawr


Cinematography and VFX by Eric Langlay
(https://www.youtube.com/user/ericdraven30)


Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi
(http://jaypellizzi.com/)


Special thanks to RED Digital Cinema, DJI, and Matt O'Dowd.


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