Mars (American TV series)

This article is about the National Geographic Channel miniseries. For other uses, see Mars (disambiguation).

Mars
Title screen for Mars.
Genre	Docudrama
Based on	"How We'll Live on Mars" by Stephen Petranek
Starring	Alberto Ammann Anamaria Marinca Ben Cotton Clementine Poidatz Jihae Sammi Rotibi
Composers	Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Original release
Network	National Geographic Channel, FX (TV channel)
Release	November 14, 2016 (2016-11-14)

Mars is a six part docudrama television miniseries produced, by the National Geographic Channel, and scheduled to be broadcast on November 14, 2016, on their channel, and FX (TV channel). Prior to its official air date, it was launched in a streaming format on November 1, 2016. It blends elements of real interviews with a fictional story of a group of astronauts as they land on the planet Mars. The series is based on the book "How We'll Live on Mars" by Stephen Petranek. The show switches time periods between the year 2033, and 2016, by way of events unfolding in the story, and then earlier predictions by scientists on the difficulties of what that situation would be like, then the time switches back to the story, revealing how the astronauts solved their problem. The series was filmed in Budapest, and Morocco. There is a companion book to the series, called "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet" a book detailing the science behind the show. A prequel show called Before Mars was produced and released conjointly with the series. It tells the fictional story of a moment in the life of one of the astronauts, and the decisions they made to get involved in science.

Plot

In the year 2033, a crew of six astronuaghts launch from Flordia on a journey, to be the first people to set foot on Mars. During the decent, into the Martian atmosphere, there is a malfunction with their ship the Daedalus. They land 75 miles away from their planned habitat. On Earth their progress is being monitored their progress.

Intermixed with the story are real life interview footage from the year 2016, of the crew, and their mission control, there are interviews with various scientists, and engineers, such as Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson, about the difficulties that the crew might face on a journey to, and living on Mars.

Episodes

1. Novo Mundo. The crew has a press conference, and launches into space. They arrive at Mars, and a malfunction causes them to land 75 miles away from their habitat. The captain has a accedent at this moment, and begins coughing up blood, which he keeps secret from the rest of the crew. They must use a rover to transport themselves to the habitat, but the group exceeds the rover's weight capacity.
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Cast

• Ben Cotton as Ben Sawyer, mission commander.
• Jihae as Hana Seung mission pilot, and as her Earth bound twin sister Joon Seung.
• Clementine Poidatz as Amelie Durand, mission physician and biochemist.
• Sammi Rotibi as Robert Foucault, mission engineer and roboticist.
• Alberto Ammann as Javier Delgado, mission hydrologist and geochemist.
• Anamaria Marinca as Marta Kamen, mission exobiologist and geologist.

External links

• Official website
• Mars at IMDb