Five Years on Mars

Author: Tom* Comments(9)

Scene from Five Years on Mars. Image courtesy National Geographic Channel

Hey everybody, Sunday night make sure you tune into the National Geographic channel, and if you are not going to be around set your Tivo, recorders or whatever you have.

At 8:00 pm Eastern (check your local listings) They are premiering “Five Years on Mars”. This is a must see, plain and simple. Why was a broken wheel on Spirit a good thing? What went on to get Opportunity buried up to it’s “hubcaps” and how did they get it out? “Five Years on Mars” gives the whole history of one of the most successful space missions on record. You will find yourself cheering the rovers on, and laughing out loud.

This show is very-very well done. Watch and/or record it, you will be glad you did.

The second program is “Calling all Aliens”, and premiers on the National Geographic channel at 10 pm Eastern (again check your local listings).

You will learn about the search for extraterrestrial life from its beginnings to where it’s heading in the future.

You will meet Frank Drake, who many (like me) consider the father of SETI.  See quite a bit of the Allen Array and even find out how an old “Chock Full of Nuts” coffee can is helping the search; oh almost forgot, there is a nice segment on hunting for extra solar planets.

Are aliens really being quiet for a reason?  Hmmmm.  :-D

Images:  National Geographic Channel.

9 Comments so far

  1. Bobby C on October 30th, 2008

    I have a comcast Digital. When I move forward on the remote to Monday at 8:00 (this is guide) it doesn’t have the shows on NGC for the date & times that you have listed above.

  2. Tom on October 31st, 2008

    Bobby, the shows are on SUNDAY, I erroneously put Saturday (mainly because I had Saturday on the brain). Check your listing though, because it is on my listing. If you are at all interested in the Rovers you will want to see the show — I’ve seen it and it is excellent.

  3. Tom on October 31st, 2008

    Oh and I have DirecTV and it’s in that guide too, maybe Comcast hasn’t updated recently.

  4. brandon on November 1st, 2008

    this is a bit of a long shot and a little off topic but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could tell me the the name of the song in the aired TV commercial of this show

  5. Tom on November 3rd, 2008

    Anybody figure out what that song was?

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  7. Blake on November 14th, 2008

    Hey, does anyone know what the musical score for the rover show is called? It’s gorgeous. Want to figure out a way to download it.

  8. Tom on November 15th, 2008

    Blake, check back in the middle of next week and I will have an answer for you, at least what the music is anyways.

    Tom

  9. Tom on November 19th, 2008

    The soundtrack was done by Tom Phillips and his company is OBT Music http://www.obtmusic.com/.

    Try here too:
    http://reel-exchange.com/members/651a3d0c/profile

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