The Mystery of Mars
Director: Ron Frank
Writer: Kenneth Morse
Editor: Ron Frank
1997, USA
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About the Film
THE MYSTERY OF MARS, offers compelling evidence for life on Mars today and that we are actually about to discover that life. A new theory about life spreading across galaxies through the “cosmic seeding” of small comets by Dr. Louis Frank (New York Times cover story May 29, 1997); the fossilized microbial life form discovered in a Martian meteorite; and convincing evidence about NASA’s Viking lander on Mars which may have actually detected life twenty years ago....
Taken together this nearly proves that there is life on Mars today.
New understandings about Mars reveal that it was once an inhabitable planet some four billion years ago - and still possibly teeming with life today. For some, even the notion of past intelligent life on the Red Planet may not be simply the stuff of popular culture.
Yet, whether or not NASA’s next orbiter - the Mars Global Surveyor - will resolve this mystery by taking new pictures, the greater importance of life on Mars lies not in what is discovered there -- but rather to remind us that............We May Not Be Alone.
As we struggle to give meaning to life here on Earth, the answer to whether we are alone is now linked to our discovery of life on our neighboring planet. The Mystery of Mars is not just about the Red Planet but about a place that will reveal....
WHO WE REALLY ARE.
