In 2020, NASA will send a new rover to the Martian surface with one of its objectives to search for evidence of ancient life on the planet. I made this clip as a correspondent for Bill Nye...
========== This is such an awesome experienceTo get up close and personal with the curiosity roverI mean, this isn't the exact one that's on Mars, obviouslybut it's basically identicalVOICEOVER: I'm here at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CaliforniaI don't know how we got in here, Bill. It's amazing.VOICEOVER: This is the NASA center that's famous for building things like the Mars rover,space probes, and rescuing Matt Damon from the red planetDEREK: You guys must get pretty sick of answering questions about The MartianKEN: Yes.VOICEOVER: This is project scientist Ken FarleyI spoke with him about life on Mars.He's one of many scientists working
on the first NASA mission in 40 yearsdesigned specifically to look for ...