To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
This film examines the use of exploratory missions by unmanned spacecrafts to find life on other planets, focusing on the Viking project exploring possible life on Mars. The miniature lab on board the Viking spacecraft is designed to search for the lowest common denominator of all living things, the cell. It seeks chemical information, looks for moist areas, which could sustain life, any evidence of photosynthesis, and especially microscopic life. These contemporary efforts to find life on other planets are discussed by Dr. Theo Hofman a biochemist at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Stephen Young, Chief of Planetary Biology at NASA.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
DO NOT USE Stock footage of rockets
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Aerial shot of large satellite dish. Microscopic few of single-cell organisms.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
DO NOT USE Stock of space & rockets.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Microscopic few of single-cell organisms. Pedestrians walking down a busy urban street. More microscope views of unidentified organisms.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
CU Dr. Stephen Young, Chief of Planetary Biology at NASA, talks to the camera about the search for life on other planets (aliens). Fossils of single-celled micro organisms. Graph showing the evolutionary tree.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
DO NOT USE Stock special effects of outer space.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
People walking down an urban street. Lots of cars & pedestrians.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Red, molten lava flowing over black rock. Lava bubbling up. Lava flows.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Scientist, Dr. Theo Hofman a biochemist at the University of Toronto, in a laboratory (lab). He moves several small spheres, representing nitrogen, hydrogen & oxygen molecules. How they form water & carbon.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
DO NOT USE Stock images representing energy.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Scientist, Dr. Theo Hofman a biochemist at the University of Toronto, in a laboratory (lab). Several small spheres, representing nitrogen, hydrogen & oxygen molecules.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Stock image of earth from space. Good footage of a moon walk & astronauts gathering rock samples.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Dr. Stephen Young walks into his office. A good generic office scene.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
DO NOT USE Stock image of space.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Graph of the solar system, planets, etc. Graphic of Pioneer satellite orbiting Jupiter.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
CU of the Viking spacecraft in a laboratory. Dr. Stephen Young with a model of the spacecraft. He explains what it will do on Mars. Stock graphic of the explorer. Dr. Young explains all of the experiments that Viking will perform.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Still photos of Mars surface. Ocean waves surge. People run on the beach. Stock shots of a generic urban environment, bridge, cars, large buildings, etc.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Large underwater laboratory. A person (looking very small in this huge tank) swims around some space exploration vehicles. Astronauts training underwater for conditions in outer space. Stock shots of astronauts & moon walk. Graphics of future space vehicles.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Dr. Stephen Young, scientist, talks to camera.
To Find Life on Other Planets: Are Martians Waiting for Us?
Stock shots of astronauts in space. Space walk.