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Looking for Life on Mars Preview

Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars. In February 2021, the spacecraft will blaze into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and attempt to lower the Perseverance Rover into the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life.

Looking for Life on Mars Preview

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  • Interview: De-Extinction, Dire Wolves, and Jurassic Park with Beth Shapiro: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Interview: De-Extinction, Dire Wolves, and Jurassic Park with Beth Shapiro

    54m 49s

    Can we bring extinct species back to life? Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro claims we just did. As Chief Science Officer at Colossal, her team made headlines in spring 2025 with the announcement of the de-extinction of the dire wolf. She takes us behind the headlines to explain how this is no “Jurassic Park” fantasy.

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    Operation Space Station: Science and Survival

    S52 E20 - 53m 41s

    Witness life-or-death decisions 250 miles above Earth, as astronauts and Mission Control work together to survive moments of high danger on board humanity’s remarkable orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station.

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