VIDEO SPECIAL: Why Mars Died, and Earth Lived

By  //  April 19, 2015

why we explore space

THE ABOVE VIDEO explores the most basic question of all: why we explore space? The Mars rover, Curiosity, is the latest in a long line of missions to Mars: landers sent to scoop its soil and study its rocks, orbiters sent to map its valleys and ridges. They are all asking the same question. Did liquid water once flow on this dry and dusty world? Did it support life in any form? And are there remnants left to find? The science that comes out of these missions may help answer a much larger, more philosophical question. (SpaceRip video)