Buried alive under two metres of snow in an avalanche; internally decapitated in a car accident; or plummeting 10,000 metres to the Earth in a plane crash - these killer scenarios leave no chance for survival... or do they? Against All Odds chronicles the incredible cases of death-defying individuals and uses science to unlock the mysteries of how these people survived.
As of 7:34 am ET, NASA's latest envoy to the planets was off to explore two different kinds of worlds - the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres (formerly known as the largest of all asteroids.) Using three Xenon-fueled ion engines, the Dawn spacecraft will pass by Mars before continuing on to the asteroid belt.
Discovery Channel Canada has embarked on its biggest documentary ever: A High Definition imagining of the first manned mission to the planet Mars. Click to check out more on the September 30 (8 pm ET) conclusion of this television event, get showtimes, and experience our collection of every Mars video, article, and game we've produced so far.
[09/26/2007] -- Just in time to help us keep track of an increasingly complex and populated world, comes the development of a keychain-sized, maple seed-shaped spycam. Funded by the Pentagon, and dubbed the nano air vehicle (NAV for short), the remote-controlled device promises to help authorities find that 'needle in a haystack.
[09/22/2007] -- Latest entry: In 2010, MIT and Georgia Tech's Mars Gravity Biosatellite will carry 15 mice into low Earth orbit for five weeks, spinning to simulate Mars-level gravity - about one-third of Earth's gravity. The research onboard will be the first of its kind and the longest self-contained biosatellite flight in history - This pioneering science is one of the key missing links in NASA and ESA designs for human exploration of Mars and beyond.
Discovery Channel Canada president Paul Lewis reflects on his boyhood dreams of a human mission to Mars, putting together the mega-production Race To Mars, and what a real mission to the Red Planet might look like as it gazes back on the pale blue dot of Earth...
[09/19/2007] -- A leaky seal on space shuttle Discovery is delaying several steps towards a key International Space Station mission. NASA officials announced Wednesday that the transfer of the shuttle to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be postponed until engineers replace the leaky seal.
[09/18/2007] -- A tool that could detect the fingerprint of current and past life on Mars has been launched for testing, according to the Canegie Institution for Science.
[09/17/2007] -- In a bid to ramp up political commitment to space exploration to levels akin to its heyday in the late 1960s the Mars Society is meeting with all candidates running in next year's U.S. presidential election, says Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin.
[09/17/2007] -- Dragging a frozen wheel and narrowly sliding between two rocks, Mars rover Spirit finally reached the destination it's been eyeballing for the last 18 months, according to NASA.
It is hard to capture the beauty of a place like Devon Island - even on TV. We're breathless here at a hill's peak, not just because we've driven our ATVs over massive boulders to get to the top, but because we're taking in a magnificent 360-degree panorama that stretches out to the horizon in all directions Our Inuit guide encapsulates it all a simple phrase: "This is my country".
[09/13/2007] -- A survey conducted for Discovery Channel Canada has revealed a lot of what you might suspect, plus a surprise or two, when it comes to public opinion on a manned mission to Mars. The survey of Canadian households - Attitudes Towards a Mission to Mars - was conducted by Discovery Channel and CTV, as well as the Globe and Mail.