Why Mars?

Watch Nat Geo's MARS Monday 11/14 at 9/8c: http://makemarshome.com/ Watch Michael and Kevin's MARS videos: https://youtu.be/KUddy8RGwns?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf *Thanks to Nat Geo for sponsoring this video* Michael's Video: https://youtu.be/KUddy8RGwns?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf Kevin's Video: https://youtu.be/5_MhErD-EA0?list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf Great Mars video by PBS Space Time https://youtu.be/jowVq81AgGw Humans to Mars: 50 Years of Mission Planning http://history.nasa.gov/monograph21/humans_to_Mars.htm The Mars Project https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Project-Wernher-Von-Braun/dp/0252062272 Mars Extreme Expeditionary Report http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/1372Trotti.pdf Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/astro_early/id/8470 Muscle Atrophy https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64249main_ffs_factsheets_hbp_atrophy.pdf Terraforming Mars http://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/420/239 Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (Included in our Curiosity Box!) http://curiositybox.com Great talk by Dr. Robert Zubrin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQSijn9FBs A Trip to Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7VImsSMQM Martian Ice Caps http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chasma-boreale-and-the-north-polar-ice-cap HAVOC https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/branches/space-mission-analysis-branch-smab/smab-projects/havoc/ Spirit Rover Stuck http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/freespirit.html Planetary Ecosynthesis http://esseacourses.strategies.org/EcosynthesisMcKay2008ReviewAAAS.pdf **CREDITS** Written, directed, hosted and edited by Jake Roper http://twitter.com/jakerawr Cinematography and VFX by Eric Langlay (https://www.youtube.com/user/ericdraven30) Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi (http://jaypellizzi.com/) Special thanks to RED Digital Cinema, DJI, and Matt O'Dowd. ***Vsauce LInks*** Vsauce1: http://youtube.com/vsauce1 Vsauce2: http://youtube.com/vsauce2 DONG: http://youtube.com/DONG Vsauce3 FB: http://facebook.com/vsauce3 Vsauce3 Twitter: http://twitter.com/vsaucethree