Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars

BBC Four

2:10 AM to 3:40 AM

Friday 6 February

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The physicist fulfils a childhood dream by going behind the scenes at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), mission control for Mars 2020 - one of the most ambitious missions ever launched, which may finally reveal if life has ever existed on the Red Planet. In 1980, a young Brian Cox wrote to JPL asking for photos from some of their missions to the planets. The pictures they sent him from Voyager and the Viking mission to Mars were a source of inspiration that set him on the path to becoming a physicist