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Welcome to Mars

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Jon Alper, Encoding
Jamie Biggar, Quicktime Interactivity
Kit Buckley, Video Scripting
Rick Groleau, Managing Editor
Jay Harlow, Illustrator
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Associate Editor
David Levin, Editorial Assistant
Jacqueline Mitchell, Editorial Assistant
Sonali Patel, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks
Juan R. Cruz, NASA Langley Research Center
Anna Davis, MDTV Productions
Mark Davis, Producer, "MARS Dead or Alive" and "Welcome to Mars"

Photo and Image Credits 
Mars homepage
Photo: © NASA; Illustration: © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas

Life's Little Essential
Photos: (waterfall, iceberg) © Peter Tyson; (Titan) © NASA, Voyager 2

Behind the Scenes
Photos: (Mark Davis et al) Courtesy of Mark Davis/MDTV Productions; (rover lab, parachute, rover, launchpad, mission control) © WGBH/NOVA/MDTV Productions

Man on a Mission
Photos: (Squyres) © Diane Bollen; Illustrations: © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas; (all other photos) © NASA/JPL

Mars From Afar
Photos: (the planet, terrain) © NASA/JPL; (canyon) © NASA/NSSDC, Viking Orbiter; (volcano) © NASA/NSSDC, Viking 1 (sand dunes, crater, ice cap, faulting, layered rocks, gullies, clouds, mesas, landslide, plains, dust storms) © NASA/JPL/MSSS; (Mars globe) © NASA/USGS

Mars Up Close
© NASA/JPL/Cornell

Anatomy of a Rover
Illustration: © Cornell University/NASA/JPL and Dan Maas

Design a Parachute
Illustrations: © WGBH/NOVA

From Launch to Landing
Video: © 2002 Cornell University. Animation by Dan Maas. All rights reserved. This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the U.S. government under Prime Contract # NAS7-1407 between the California Institute of Technology and NASA.  Copyright and other rights in the design drawings of the Mars Exploration Rover are held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA, JPL, and Caltech.

TV Program Description - Welcome to Mars
Photo: © NASA/JPL

 

Written, Produced and Directed by
Mark Davis

Edited by
Nathan Hendrie

Associate Producer
Anna Davis

Music
Tom Phillips

Narrated by
Neil Ross

Rover and Spacecraft Animation
Maas Digital, LLC
Dan Maas
John Niehaus
Justin Wick

Mars Animation and Graphics
Anna Davis, MDTV Productions

Early Mars Flyover Visualizations
Kees Veenenbos

Camera
Rick Robertson
John Beck
Brian Dowley
Scott Hulme
Jim Mattingly

Sound Recordists
Alan Barker
Douglas Donald
Brian Buckley
John Cameron

Location Video Engineers
John Monsour
Mike Pemberton

Mars Images and Additional Mission Footage
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
NASA

Online Editor and Colorist
Mark Steele

Audio Mix
John Jenkins

Special Thanks
Stephen Kulczycki
Jeffrey Jenkins
Guy Webster
Veronica McGregor
Dave Lyle

 

NOVA Series Graphics
National Ministry of Design

NOVA Theme
Mason Daring
Martin Brody
Michael Whalen

Post Production Online Editor
Spencer Gentry

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

Publicity
Jonathan Renes
Diane Buxton
Olivia Wong

Senior Researcher
Barbara Moran

Production Coordinators
Linda Callahan
Dara Bourne

Unit Manager
Lola Norman-Salako

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Patrick Carey

Associate Producer, Post Production
Nathan Gunner

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Maureen Barden Lynch

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

   

A NOVA Production by MDTV Productions for WGBH/Boston in association with National Geographic Channel International

Original MER Animation
Animation by Dan Maas, Maas Digital LLC
© 2002 Cornell University All rights reserved.
This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the United States Government under Prime Contract #NAS7-1407 between the California Institute of Technology and NASA. Copyright and other rights in the design drawings of the Mars Exploration Rover are held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA, JPL, and Caltech.

© 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation

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