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Crash Landing on Mars

S6E4 Nov 22, 2011 Runtime TBD

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What might happen if the first manned mission to Mars crashes hundreds of miles from the rocket that would take them back home? Could they survive the crash, and travel across the brutal Martian surface to their home ship? We'll show what the astronauts would have to do to survive dust storms and space radiation, while extracting vital resources like water from the Martian soil itself. It's a dramatic vision of the very near future, where survival can depend on pre-industrial technology and human ingenuity.

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Episode: S6E4

Aired: Nov 22, 2011

Runtime: Runtime TBD

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