LIVE FROM MARS, program 5, "Today on Mars"
Airs November 13th 1997, on PBS and NASA-TV

10) CAMILLE LEADS TO TES DESCRIPTION: LIVE (00:20) <09:49>
Talks about ROCK STARS, etc.

Seeds FOSSIL action: DISCUSS WITH PAM, DAVID AND PHIL…

Holds up props!!!

CAMILLE:
WE KNOW THAT "THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER" IS QUITE A 
MOUTHFUL… SO WE ASKED PHIL CHRISTENSEN AND HIS GRADUATE 
STUDENT, CHECK NAME, TO SHOW US HOW IT WORKS… 

AND TO BRING THINGS REALLY DOWN TO EARTH, WE THOUGHT WE’D 
GIVE THEM ROCKS TO ANALYZE SUBMITTED BY STUDENTS 
PARTICIPATING IN LIVE FROM MARS! 

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED? DO YOU THINK TES WORKED? COULD PHIL 
FIGURE OUT WHERE IN THE US THE ROCKS CAME FROM? STAY TUNED!

11) TES IN ACTION: VTR (02:30) <12:19>
PHIL describes how TES works, lots of graphics and MGS animation, and
testing 
of the rocks sent in by kids ("Rock Stars")
Pre-taped by KAET crew, edited in Phoenix.
"Mars down to Earth" graphic
transcript to come!!!

12) PHIL Q&A #1 (02:00) <14:19>
SOMEONE, SOMEHOW NEEDS TO PAY OFF THE KID/ROCK QUESTION: 
GHS FIGURE OUT AFTER SEEING HOW IT WORKED!!!

DAVID AND KIDS BESIDE TES "MODEL"
PHIL IN COMPUTER ROOM

DAVID brokers ASU kid question

PHIL replies

CAMILLE intros VTR question

SUMMIT VTR:
Jessica: What information will TES provide about the polar regions?

CAMILLE intros e-mail question
e-mail graphic (from summer shows)

13)           CAMILLE LEAD TO "MOLA AND MGS", LIVE (00:20) <14:29>
CAMILLE to camera
WE'LL BE BACK WITH PHIL LATER, BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER 
INTERESTING INSTRUMENTS ON BOARD MGS, INCLUDING ONE KNOWN 
AS "MOLA." YES, THAT'S M-O-L-A, MOLA (CAMILLE AS RAY DAVIES!)

YOU CAN READ ABOUT IT, AND ACTUALLY SIMULATE WHAT IT DOES IN 
YOUR CLASSROOM WITH AN ACTIVITY IN THE LFM TEACHER'S GUIDE. 
TIM MCCOLLUM AND HIS STUDENTS AT SHOWED US HOW…

14)             MOLA AND MGS: VTR (03:00) <17:29>
Pre-taped depiction of MOLA in operation and how Tim's class make their
own 
MOLA's in showboxes

Chapter head:
LIVE FROM MARS
SCHOOL REPORT:
CHARLESTON, IL

TIM FULL SOT				
“So one of the things that this particular project you’ll be working on
today and 
this spacecraft called MGS...all the time it’s orbiting around Mars, it’s
gonna be 
shooting beams of light down to surface.”

CAMILLE VO:
ON SEPTEMBER 11, AFTER A TEN MONTH JOURNEY, GLOBAL SURVEYOR 
WAS CAPTURED INTO ORBIT AROUND MARS. 

ON SEPTEMBER 15TH, DURING ITS THIRD CLOSE APPROACH TO MARS, 
GLOBAL SURVEYOR COULD SAFELY POINT ALL ITS SCIENCE 
INSTRUMENTS TOWARD THE PLANET FOR THE FIRST TIME. 

THE MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER...MOLA WAS TURNED ON FOR A 
TEST OF THE SYSTEM BEFORE IT BEGINS ITS SYSTEMATIC MAPPING 
MISSION LATER IN 1998.

THIS IS A VISUALIZATION OF DATA COLLECTED BY MOLA. 

THE RED LINE SHOWS AN APPROXIMATELY 3000 MILE TRACK OF THE 
PLANET’S NORTHERN HEMISPHERE PROBED BY THE LASER ALTIMETER.

THE BULGE IS IN A REGION CALLED THE ELYSIUM RISE, THE SECOND 
LARGEST VOLCANIC AREA ON MARS.

THIS TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE REPRESENTS MOLA DATA COLLECTED 
OVER A 20 MINUTE TIME FRAME, THIS BULGE IS AT LEAST 3 MILES HIGH, 
BUT THE AREA ALSO HAS DEEP CHASMS... EVIDENCE, PERHAPS, OF 
TECTONIC AND VOLCANIC PROCESSES AS WELL AS EROSION...THE 
SAME FORCES THAT CARVED THE SURFACE FEATURES OF OUR OWN 
PLANET.

Kids demo
TIM FULL SOT:
“To get an idea of what the surface of Mars might look like, we can use
these 
pictures

TO UNDERSTAND HOW MOLA WORKS, STUDENTS IN TIM MCCOLLUM’S IN 
CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS, CLASS PLANNED A HANDS-ON SIMULATION 
BASED ON AN ACTIVITY IN THE LIVE FROM MARS TEACHER’S GUIDE.

THEIR TOOLS: CONTOUR MAPS AND PICTURES OF MARS THAT CAN BE 
FOUND ON OUR LIVE FROM
MARS WEBSITE OR DIRECTLY FROM NASA.

BUT THEY ALSO USED >LOW-TECH< MATERIALS -- A SHOEBOX, 
CARDBOARD, PAPER, ALUMINUM FOIL, ROCKS AND GLUE TO 
CONSTRUCT A 3-DIMENSIONAL SEGMENT OF MARS BASED ON THE 
CONTOUR MAPS. WHEN TAPED SHUT, THE BOX CONTAINS A "REMOTE" 
AND "UNKNOWN" AREA READY TO BE PROBED BY STUDENT 
INVESTIGATORS!

AROUND MARS, MOLA USES A LASER THAT FIRES INFRARED PULSES.

IN MR.. MCCOLLUM’S CLASS, THE DEPTH PROFILES WERE OBTAINED 
WITH WIRE COAT HANGERS!!!

TIM FULL SOT:
“Each team will have an altimeter rod to use with their boxes....your task
is to 
determine the actual shape without looking
being able to look inside."

MOLA’S INFRARED PULSES FIRE TEN TIMES EACH SECOND. HOW LONG 
IT TAKES FOR THE LIGHT TO REFLECT OFF THE MARTIAN SURFACE AND 
RETURN TO THE ORBITER -- COMBINED WITH CALCULATIONS OF THE 
SPACECRAFT'S DISTANCE RELATIVE TO THE CENTER OF THE PLANET -- 
YIELDS SURFACE ELEVATIONS THAT ARE PRECISE TO WITHIN TENS OF 
METERS.

STUDENTS CAREFULLY RECORDED >THEIR< MEASUREMENTS IN 
LOGBOOKS. THE NUMBERS WERE THEN TRANSFORMED INTO A SET OF 
PHYSICAL PROFILES...RESULTING IN  A 3 DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC 
RELIEF REPRESENTING THE PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TERRAIN.

WITH THE HANDS-ON PART OF THE SIMULATION COMPLETE, MR. 
MCCOLLUM TOOK THE ACTIVITY ONE STEP FURTHER IN THE MIDDLE 
SCHOOL COMPUTER LAB. 

STUDENTS ENTERED THEIR MEASUREMENTS INTO A SPREAD-SHEET 
AND THEN USED AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE SOFTWARE PROGRAM, NIH 
IMAGE, TO TRANSFORM THE NUMERICAL DATA INTO VISUAL DISPLAYS.

SO IN THIS ONE ACTIVITY STUDENTS LEARNED ABOUT THE 
TOPOGRAPHY OF MARS AND THE INSTRUMENTS ABOARD A NASA 
SPACECRAFT… THEY CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION USING 
SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES AND COMPUTER SKILLS, AND THEN – 
SYMBOLIZING SOME OF THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY LIVE 
FROM MARS IN COOPERATION WITH NASA – THEY HAD AN 
OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT DIRECTLY WITH GLENN CUNNINGHAM, 
PROJECT MANAGER OF MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MISSION.

BEGIN WITH GLENN SYNC:
AND ONE OF THE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS… speaks about altimeter, and 
direct measurement.

Glen and kids interact SOT

15) MGS Q&A LIVE WITH STILL FRAMES (01:00) <18:59>

CAMILLE leads to SUMMIT VTR question for WAYNE:
WELL THOSE STUDENTS INTERACTED BY PLAIN OLD TELEPHONE… 
TODAY WE'RE USING TVC AND THE INTERNET… SO…MORE QUESTIONS! 

WAYNE, YOU'VE BEEN THE VOICE OF THE NAVIGATION  TEAM DURING 
OUR PROJECT… SO THIS ONE'S FOR YOU

VTR QUESTION
(Rebecca) I was wondering whether MGS could work on any planet, or whether 
it's specific to Mars?

WAYNE answers

Direct to SUMMIT VTR question 
Are there North and South magnetic poles on Mars?

GLENN answers ( with still frames) 

Usual PTK double box for live questions:
Direct to ASU question (DAVID brokers)

WAYNE answers

16) CAMILLE WEB SITE PLUG AND LEAD (00:45) <19:44>
CAMILLE ON CAMERA, with graphic
REMEMBER, YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW TO GET YOUR QUESTIONS 
ANSWERED, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE, BY GOING TO THE LIVE FROM 
MARS WEB SITE, AT:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars

THERE'S BACKGROUND ON THE MISSION, BIOGRAPHIES OF MANY OF 
NASA'S MARS TEAM, A VIRTUAL TOUR OF PATHFINDER'S LANDING 
SITE… AND MUCH MORE.

NOTE: CAMILLE CONTINUES READING…

17) CAMILLE LEADS TO "WEATHER WORLDS" (00:20) <27:04>
CAMILLE: to camera…
ONE OF THE REASONS MARS IS SUCH AN INTERESTING PLACE IS THAT 
IN MANY WAYS IT'S LIKE EARTH… IT'S GOT SEASONS, ICE CAPS, 
CLOUDS, CANYONS, SAND DUNES… AND WEATHER!

MGS'S INSTRUMENTS SHOULD BE GATHERING WEATHER DATA FOR 
MONTHS IF NOT YEARS… AND PATHFINDER RETURNED ALMOST 3 
MONTHS OF VERY INTERESTING DATA. 

DOWN HERE ON EARTH, LIVE FROM MARS HAS BEEN HOSTING AN 
ACTIVITY CALLED "WEATHER WORLDS" WHICH INVITES STUDENTS FIRST 
TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WEATHER DATA THEY WANT TO COLLECT… AND 
THEN TO GO DO IT. YOU'LL SEE STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER AND WHAT 
THEY'VE BEEN UP TO… 

BUT FIRST, PATHFINDER METEROLOGY TEAM LEADER TIM SCHOLFIELD 
TELLS US WHAT PATHFINDER DISCOVERED ABOUT 3 VERY FAMILIAR 
SETS OF WEATHER MEASUREMENTS… PRESSURE AND WIND SPEED 
AND DIRECTION.

18) "WEATHER WORLDS" VTR (04:00) <31:04>
A) Pathfinder as "weather station" and what it found, includes VTR
sequence 
with TIM SCHOFIELD (clouds, wind patterns, dust devil?)

SCHOLFIELD sync

B) VTR from classrooms showing WEATHER WORLDS in action, (includes 
DAVID GLASER, GINNY DEXTER, LUCY MARSKE and TBD) 
Begin with "MARS DOWN TO EARTH" graphic

DOWN HERE ON EARTH, OUR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT, 
KNOWN AS "WEATHER WORLDS", ENGAGED STUDENTS ALL ACROSS 
THE COUNTRY.

THEY BEGAN BY RESEARCHING WHAT THE >REAL< MARS SCIENTISTS 
HAD BEEN DOING… USING THE INTERNET TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE 
VERY SAME CHARTS TIM SCHOFIELD REFERRED TO.

THEN IT WAS TIME TO FIND OUT HOW WEATHER DATA IS GATHERED 
HERE ON EARTH, AND HOW THEY'D GO ABOUT COLLECTING AND 
MEASURING IT FOR THEMSELVES.

THEY HAD TO DECIDE WHICH MEASUREMENTS WERE MOST 
IMPORTANT… WHAT INSTRUMENTS WERE REQUIRED… AND HOW TO 
MAKE OR ACCESS THEM.

STUDENTS USED WELL THUMBED LIBRARY BOOKS AND NASA'S "MARS 
NAVIGATOR" CD-ROM… REFERENCE MATERIALS OLD AND NEW… 
THE REAL WORLD CONNECTION GAVE THEM A MOTIVE TO DIG DEEP 
AND HARD…

THERE WERE LOTS OF GOOD IDEAS, SO THE NEXT TASK BECAME ONE 
OF >DECIDING HOW TO DECIDE<. 

TEACHER LUCY MARKSE IN IOWA HAD HER STUDENTS WORK IN TEAMS, 
PREPARING FIRST DRAFTS OF THEIR PROPOSALS FOR OTHERS TO 
REVIEW AND REFINE.

STUDENTS HERE AND ELSEWHERE TOOK THEIR ROLES VERY 
SERIOUSLY.

THEN IT WAS TIME TO POST IDEAS ONLINE… AND TO RESPOND TO 
PLANS POSTED BY OTHER CLASSES FROM OTHER REGIONS OF THE 
COUNTRY.

TEACHER MARKSE PROVIDED SUGGESTIONS FOR HOW TO MAKE THE 
ONLINE DEBATE PRODUCTIVE…

ONCE AGAIN THE STUDENTS TOOK PAINS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES 
CLEARLY, BUT POLITELY.

STUDENTS AT SUNRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN PENDLETON, OREGON, 
PUT THEIR INSTRUMENTS TO THE TEST… BUT CERTAINLY MADE IT 
LOOK LIKE FUN.

THESE BERKELEY YOUNGSTERS CAME UP WITH MANY INGENIOUS 
WAYS TO BUILD THEIR INSTRUMENTS, AND TEST THEM TO MAKE SURE 
THEY'D WORK JUST RIGHT.

THEY EVEN CAME UP WITH A NOVEL DESIGN TO RECORD 
TEMPERATURES  
AT NIGHT!

THEN IT WAS TIME TO GATHER DATA, TO SEE HOW WELL THE 
INSTRUMENTS WOULD WORK.

IT WAS ONLY JUST ABOVE FREEZING IN IOWA…

AND STILL WARM AND SUNNY IN CALIFORNIA. 

FOR THESE CALIFORNIA YOUNGSTERS, JUST AS FOR PATHFINDER, THE 
DISAPPOINTMENT WAS TOO LITTLE WIND TO EXERCISE THEIR 
SENSORS!

MANY SCHOOLS HAVE JUST BEGUN TO GATHER DATA, AND IT'S REALLY 
NEVER TOO LATE TO JOIN IN…

BUT "WEATHER WORLDS" WAS NEVER JUST ABOUT WEATHER..

STUDENTS LEARNED SOME PRACTICAL TECHNOLOGY… HOW TO MAKE 
BAROMETERS, AND USE WET AND DRY BULB THERMOMETERS… BUT 
THEY ALSO MASTERED MANY BASIC SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS -- WHAT 
CONSTITUTES "ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE" AND "HUMIDITY", AND 
DETAILS OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CLOUDS.

BUT MORE… THEY HAD A CHANCE TO PRACTISE LOOKING FOR 
INFORMATION… DECIDING WHAT WAS MOST IMPORTANT, AND HOW TO 
EXPRESS OPINIONS TO OTHERS…

… ALLOWING KIDS WITH SPECIAL SKILLS IN MAKING INSTRUMENTS TO 
FEEL PRIDE IN WHAT THEY'D DONE…

THEY KNEW THE ANXIETY OF SHARING PLANS WITH CLASSMATES AND 
PEERS -- VIA THE INTERNET. AND THEY KNEW THE RESPONSIBILITY OF 
REVIEWING OTHERS WORK.

FOR ALL THESE STUDENTS, PARTICIPATING IN WEATHER WORLDS 
CERTAINLY BROUGHT PATHFINDER'S MARTIAN DATA DOWN TO EARTH… 

BUT IT ALSO MADE THEM MISSION DESIGNERS, WRITERS, EDITORS, 
REVIEWERS, ENGINEERS, RESEARCHERS, COMMUNICATORS… ALL OF 
THEM "JUNIOR CO-INVESTIGATORS" BOTH OF WEATHER AND THE 
SCIENTIFIC PROCESS.

19) CAMILLE ON WEATHER WORLDS PARTICIPATION AND WEB SITE 
(01:00) <32:04>

CAMILLE:
REMEMBER, YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DATA 
GATHERING PHASES OF WEATHER WORLDS BY GOING ONLINE, TODAY, 
AT OUR LIVE FROM MARS SITE… DON'T DELAY!

BUT ALONG WITH DATA, THESE MARS MISSIONS HAVE ALSO RETURNED 
A TREASURE TROVE OFIMAGES. HERE'S MORE ON WHAT WE CAN 
EXPECT FROM MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR!

20) MGS IMAGING: VTR (03:00) <35:04>
Pre-taped sequence showing MGS's camera, CJ's kids in Pittsburgh

OVER THE LIFE OF THE MISSION, IF ALL GOES WELL, MGS SHOULD STILL 
MAP MOST OF THE PLANET. ITS SOPHISTICATED CAMERA CAN RECORD 
IMAGES THAT ARE BOTH WIDER ANGLE >AND< CLOSER UP THAN THE 
VIKING ORBITERS COULD. 

WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THE NEWEST PICTURES OF ROCK STRATA AND 
POSSIBLE DRY LAKE BEDS… 

BUT MIKE MALIN, THE CAMERA'S DESIGNER…

…ALSO RELEASED AN AMAZINGLY DETAILED "FLY-OVER"…

…A CLIFF AND SLOPING AREA AT THE WESTERN END OF THE "GANGES 
CHASMA."

WHAT GLOBAL SURVEYOR IS SHOWING US IS A LANDSLIDE, AND 
LAYERS OF DEFORMED SURFACE…

…FARTHER ON OUR FLIGHT ACROSS MARS THE BEDROCK IS COVERED 
BY SAND, EXCEPT WHERE A FEW BOULDERS, SOME THE SIZE OF 
AUTMOBILES, LIE STREWN ON THE SURFACE…

THESE ARE THE VERY LATEST IMAGES FROM MARS… BUT SCHOOLS 
EVERYWHERE HAVE A CHANCE TO BRING THE STUDY OF MARS DOWN 
TO EARTH VIA THE INTERNET.

HERE IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, TEACHER C.J. RODKEY INVITES 
STUDENTS TO PUT THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF NASA SCIENTISTS, 
SELECTING A LANDING SITE FOR FUTURE MARS MISSIONS.

CJ sync:
"What kind of things… a good thing."

CJ'S STUDENTS USE A SIMULATION DEVELOPED BY NASA'S CLASSROOM 
OF THE FUTURE AND, LIKE OUR MOLA CLASS, NIH IMAGE SOFTWARE, 

THESE STUDENTS WORK WITH REAL MARTIAN IMAGES… AND LEARN TO 
INTERPRET WHAT THEY'RE SEEING. 

AFTER THE IMAGE PROCESSING SESSION, THIS CLASS GOT TO SPEAK 
DIRECTLY WITH MIKE MALIN… AND YOU'LL SOON FIND A RECORD OF 
THEIR INTERACTION ONLINE.

BACK TO CAMILLE!!! FOR LEAD:
BUT RIGHT NOW, LIVE AND DIRECT FROM ARIZONA STATE, STUDENTS 
HAVE A CHANCE TO ASK ONE OF THE OTHER MARS SCIENTISTS ALL 
ABOUT >HIS< LATEST RESULTS… OVER TO YOU, DAVID SEIDEL…

21) ASU #2 TES AND IMAGES (03:00) <38:04>
REHEARSE THIS SEQUENCE!!!
Still frames from 11/10 press conference, integrated from JPL over PHIL
live 
report!
PHIL beside the TES model, describes results to date, and plans for
future…

22) ASU/PHIL Q&A #2 LIVE (02:00) <40:04>
e-mail read from JPL

ASU kid

e-mail read from JPL
 
23) CAMILLE LEAD: LIVE TO CAMERA (00:20) <46:56>

CAMILLE:
WELL JUST BECAUSE PATHFINDER'S MISSION IS OVER, AND THIS IS THE 
LAST PROGRAM IN OUR "LIVE FROM MARS" SERIES, DOES >NOT< BY 
ANY MEANS INDICATE THE PACE OF EXPLORATION IS SLOWING… FIRST 
THERE'S "MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR"… BUT THEN THERE'S THE WHOLE 
"MARS SURVEYOR" PROGRAM, FOLLOWING IN THE ROCKET-STREAM OF 
PATHFINDER AND MGS… 

See NORM in the sandbox!!!

WITH US TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT FUTURE IS JPL'S 
NORM HAYNES…

CAMILLE:
HERE'S WHAT'S PLANNED FOR "MARS AHEAD"  

24) "MARS AHEAD": VTR (04:00) <50:56>
CAMILLE VO
Still frame: MARS AHEAD

THE NEXT MISSION TO VISIT THE RED PLANET WILL BE "MARS 
SURVEYOR 98" – ONE NAME, BUT >TWO< SPACECRAFT…

…ONE AN ORBITER DESIGNED TO SURVEY THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION 
OF WATER VAPOR, DUST, TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE…

THE OTHER, A LANDER DESIGNED TO DIG DOWN IN SOME OF MARS' 
MOST INTERESTING TERRAIN.

LAUNCH FOR THE ORBITER COMES IN DECEMBER 1998… HIGH ABOVE 
EARTH, EACH ROCKET STAGE FALLS AWAY, AND THE SPACECRAFT IS 
SPUN UP TO ACHIEVE STABILITY ON ITS JOURNEY TO MARS.

ON BOARD IS AN INSTRUMENT TO HUNT FOR WATER AND SURVEY 
MARS' ATMOSPHERE…

AND THE MARS COLOR IMAGER, KNOWN AS "MARCI" (pron. MARSEY)

ONE MONTH LATER, THE LANDER DEPARTS, FOLLOWING ALONG TO 
MARS…

IN SEPTEMBER 1999, THE ORBITER ARRIVES, AND – LIKE MARS GLOBAL 
SURVEYOR – AEROBRAKES, TO SLOW DOWN AND LOWER ITSELF INTO A 
MAPPING ORBIT. 

THEN THE CAMERA COMES INTO ITS OWN… USING ITS WIDE ANGLE TO 
IMAGE SURFACE FEATURES… AND ITS NARROW ANGLE TO MEASURE 
OZONE AND ASSAY MARTIAN MINERALS.

THEN THE LANDER ARRIVES… 

JUST AFTER JETTISONING ITS CRUISE STAGE, TWO MICROPROBES ARE 
RELEASED. ONLY 4 POUNDS EACH, BUT PACKED WITH SOPHISTICATED 
MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS, THEIR SHELL PROTECTS THEM FROM THE 
HEAT, AND ORIENTS THEM AS THEY PLUNGE DOWNWARDS.

THEY IMPACT THE SURFACE AT 400 MILES PER HOUR, AND – IF ALL 
GOES WELL – THEIR FRONT PART BURIES ITSELF BENEATH THE SOIL TO 
SEARCH FOR SUBSURFACE WATER ICE… COMMUNICATING BACK TO 
THE ORBITER VIA INSTRUMENTS SAFELY ENCASED IN THE AFTERBODY 

THE LANDER ARRIVES MUCH MORE SEDATELY! 

PROTECTED IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE BY ITS HEAT RESISTANT 
BACKSHELL, A PARACHUTE SLOWS IT STILL MORE, BEFORE ROCKET 
ENGINES CARRY IT THROUGH THE FINAL STAGES OF A POWERED 
DESCENT.

IN AN EXCITING FIRST, A DESCENT IMAGING CAMERA CHARACTERIZES 
THE SURFACE WHERE IT LANDS. 

TOUCHDOWN SHOULD BE ABOUT 500 MILES FROM MARS' SOUTH POLE, 
THE HIGHEST LATITUDE LANDING YET ON THE PLANET.

THE SURVEYOR LANDER HAS A ROBOTIC ARM, DESIGNED TO DIG DOWN 
INTO WHAT'S CALLED "LAYERED TERRAIN"… AN AREA WHICH 
SCIENTISTS THINK HAS BEEN CREATED BY SUCCESSIVE MELTING AND 
FREEZING OF THE MARTIAN POLAR CAP… TRAPPING GENERATIONS OF 
DUST WHICH MIGHT CONTAIN CLUES TO MARS' CLIMATE HISTORY.

THE SOIL GETS ANALYZED BY AN ONBOARD LABORATORY…

JUST AS ON PATHFINDER, THERE'S A CAMERA SYSTEM TO IMAGE THE 
LANDING SITE, WITH FILTERS TO REVEAL THE PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT 
KINDS OF ROCKS…

IF THE CAMERA LOOKS RATHER LIKE PATHFINDER'S "IMP" – THERE'S A 
VERY GOOD REASON. 

JUST LIKE THE IMP, THE CAMERA WAS BUILT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 
ARIZONA, TUCSON. 

"LIVE FROM MARS" VISITED A BASEMENT CLEAN ROOM, WHERE A TEAM 
WORKING WITH PETE SMITH WAS PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON 
THE CAMERA…

ACROSS THE ROOM, OTHER RESEARCHERS WERE WORKING ON THE 
SPECIAL "WRIST" CAMERA WHICH WILL BE ATTACHED TO SURVEYOR'S 
ROBOT ARM, ALLOWING SCIENTISTS TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT'S SHE'S 
GATHERING, FROM WHERE…

IF ALL GOES WELL, THE SURVEYOR 98 LANDER AND ORBITER WILL 
SURVIVE TO RETURN YEAR'S OF DATA… LEADING ON TO THE SAMPLE 
RETURN MISSIONS IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

THESE WILL LIKELY USE LONG-RANGE ROVERS WHICH WILL ROAM 
MILES FROM THE LANDERS, COLLECTING ROCKS AND RETURNING 
THEM TO BASE… WAITING FOR THE FIRST TICKET HOME TO EARTH.

ALREADY TESTS OF THIS ROVER, KNOWN AS "NOMAD", HAVE LOGGED 
MORE THAN 133 MILES ACROSS CHILE'S RUGGED ATACAMA DESERT…

BUT IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE NEW MILLENIUM, THE HOPE IS TO 
LAUNCH THE FIRST >HUMAN< MISSIONS TO MARS… 

AND IF HUMANS GO, WE'LL NEED NEW KINDS OF SPACESUITS TO 
PROTECT THEM ON THE ROCKY MARTIAN SURFACE, AND ALLOW THEM 
TO DO WHAT GEOLOGISTS LOVE TO DO… REACH DOWN AND GATHER 
ROCKS.

ALREADY RESEARCHERS AT NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOME 
OF THE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS, ARE DEVELOPING SUITS TO MEET 
THOSE CHALLENGES.

BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO TEST THE SUITS ON THE GROUND… IN 
NORMAL EARTH GRAVITY. 

WILL THEY WORK ON MARS, WITH ITS MUCH WEAKER GRAVITY?

HERE JSC'S PHIL WEST – HIS DAY JOB IS SUPPORTING EVA'S, OR SPACE 
WALKS – SHOWS US WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE KC-135 JET – A.K.A THE 
"VOMIT COMET" – GOES INTO ONE OF ITS LONG, LOOPING PARABOLAS… 

FOR MINUTES AT A TIME, EARTH'S GRAVITY LESSENS… SEE HOW MUCH 
MORE SLOWLY THAT MARS BALL IS FALLING BACK INTO PHIL'S HAND?

THEN IT'S TIME TO TEST THE MARS THE "ADVANCED SPACESUIT 
TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRTOR." 

UP AND DOWN THE KC-135, THERE'S A LITTLE STRIP OF MARS… RUST-
RED ROCKS, WITH A RUGGED SURFACE DESIGNED TO TEST BOOTS AND 
SUIT.

UP AND DOWN THEY GO… SOMETIMES LOSING BALANCE… 
PROTOTYPING NOW IN WHAT THEY CALL "SPACESUIT DYNAMICS TESTS" 
THE FASHIONS THAT MAY THE RAGE ON MARS IN THE YEAR 2018…

Dissolve back to Camille, Norm, Glenn 

25) NORM AND GLENN ON FUTURE MISSIONS: LIVE (03:00) <53:56>

CAMILLE leads to JPL kid asking e-mail question:

JPLkid reads e-mail question

DONNA replies

(SEIDEL brokers ASU kid question)

DONNA replies

Straight to VTR question
SUMMIT VTR: (Rebecca) Will any of the instruments aboard MGS be used again 
on future missions? 

GLENN replies

26) CAMILLE AND NORM INTERACT, LIVE WITH STILL FRAMES: "WHERE 
ARE THEY NOW?"

CAMILLE leads DONNA through comments on key people we've met during LFM

NORM, SOME FEATURE FILMS END WITH A ROUND-UP OF WHAT 
HAPPENED TO THE CHARACTERS SINCE LAST WE MET THEM… AND 
THESE MARS MISSIONS ARE JUST AS EXCITING AS ANY FEATURE… SO 
WE THOUGHT WE'D TAKE A LEAF OUR OF THE MOVIE BOOK.

WE FIRST MET TONY SPEAR IN THAT CLEAN ROOM AT CAPE 
CANAVERAL… AND THEN SAW HIS JOY AS PATHFINDER LANDED? 
WHAT'S TONY UP TO NOW?

NORM replies, voice over still frame, and we read on text with key points
(e.g. 
TONY SPEAR, HEAD NEW MILLENIUM TECHNOLOGY PROJECT, etc. etc.)

CAMILLE:
WHAT ABOUT ROB MANNING, WHO TOOK US BEHIND THE SCENES AT 
JPL AND WAS THE FIRST TO PASS ALONG NEWS THAT ALL WAS WELL 
WITH PATHFINDER?

NORM replies over still frame:

CAMILLE
WE MET JENNIFER HARRIS AS THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR ON PATHFINDER'S 
LANDING DAY? WHAT'S SHE UP TO NOW?

NORM replies

CAMILLE:
 WHAT ABOUT DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER BRIAN MUIRHEAD?

NORM replies:

CAMILLE:
RICHARD COOK WAS MISSION MANAGER, AND PROUD FATHER OF TWO 
NEWBORNS, A FLESH AND BLOOD BABY ON EARTH AND PATHFINDER 
ON MARS… WHERE IS HE NOW?

NORM replies:

WAYNE is next!!!

CAMILLE:
AND WAYNE… WE KNEW YOU AS SOMEONE HELPING NAVIGATE FROM 
EARTH TO MARS… IS YOUR JOB NOW DONE?

WAYNE replies…

27) WAYNE Q&A: LIVE (02:30) <46:34>
topic is "Young people and science…"

CAMILLE:
OK, WAYNE, WE'VE GOT SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOUR FROM AROUND 
THE NATION…

JPL kid reads e-mail question…

WAYNE replies:

Direct to VTR question…

CHARLESTON VTR question
My name is Alicia and I would like to know if the data coming back from 
Pathfinder and MGS is more accurate than in the past such as from Viking?

WAYNE replies

SEIDEL brokers ASU kid question

WAYNE replies

28) PHIL ON THE FUTURE:  LIVE (01:00) <54:56>

SEIDEL leads to JPL e-mail question
WELL PHIL CHRISTENSEN PLANS TO BE PART OF MANY OF THOSE 
FUTURE MISSIONS… SO A QUESTION TO PHIL ABOUT THE FUTURE…

JPL kid reads e-mail question

PHIL replies…

CAMILLE: Pay off rock stars/fossil: DECIDE HOW TO DO THIS AFTER SEEING 
THE CUT SEQUENCE

29) "ROUND-ROBIN" TO PHIL, WAYNE, NORM, GLENN: LIVE (TBD!!! Open-
ended depending on rest of program) <56:45>
live Q&A

CAMILLE brokers questions to: GLENN, DONNA, WAYNE and PHIL in this order

VTR from SUMMIT
What causes the difference in temperature at datum level and 1-2 meters
above 
datum?

GLENN answers…

VTR from SUMMIT
Why is MGS doing more science than Pathfinder?

NORM replies…

JPL e-mail question…

WAYNE replies…

ASU question…

PHIL replies…

30) CAMILLE CLOSE: LIVE & VTR (01:30) <58:15>

CAMILLE:
SO THAT'S ALL FOR "TODAY ON MARS"… BUT AS YOU KNOW NOW, MGS 
IS GOING TO BE MAKING NEWS FOR YEARS AHEAD… AND BEYOND 
THAT, AMERICA WILL BE LAUNCHING SPACECRAFT TO MARS EVERY 2 
YEARS.

YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG VIA THE INTERNET… YOUR LAUNCHPAD? 

Graphic http:quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars
THE "LIVE FROM MARS" WEB SITE WILL STAY ACTIVE THROUGH 
DECEMBER 1997, AND WILL REMAIN A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR MUCH 
LONGER, PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS AND 
STUDENTS, AND LINKING DIRECTLY TO ALL OF NASA'S SITES DEALING 
WITH MARS.

Graphic: 973.656.9403
AND TAPES OF ALL THE PROGRAMS REMAIN AVAILABLE TO BRING THIS 
UNIQUE LEARING EXPERIENCE ALIVE…  

LAST BIT OF VIDEO!!! VTR 2

Kids watch the MGS launch and cheer (LFM 101) and then the MPF and MGS 
scientists cheer on July 4th and Sept 11th.
IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE TOOK YOU TO CAPE KENNEDY, A YEAR OF 
>FIRST-HAND VIEWS< OF CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE… AND PRETTY 
CLEAR PROOF THAT WORKING IN RESEARCH AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY 
CAN BE >GREAT FUN< AS WELL AS INTELLECTUALLY REWARDING.

Back to CAMILLE on camera
WE HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED BEING PART OF "LIVE FROM MARS"… 
REMEMBER THOSE MARTIAN SPACESUITS? SOMEONE'S GOTTA WEAR 
'EM!?! 

PERHAPS YOUR TV AND COMPUTER, ALONG WITH YOUR CURIOSITY 
WILL BE YOUR REAL-LIFE "PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE" AND 
ADVENTURE… AND TO THE RED PLANET!

FOR "LIVE FROM MARS", I'M CAMILLE MOODY… ONWARD AND UPWARD, 
TO MARS AND BEYOND!!! 

31) END CREDITS: VTR (01:00) <59:15>
Pre-taped?

31) UNDERWRITER ANNOUNCE: VTR (00:14) 59:29

OFF THE AIR AT 59:30 WITHOUT FAIL!!!