NOVA follows a team of scientists as the monitor the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit runs into some problems, but Opportunity takes a photograph that may confirm the existence of water on Mars.
Chronicles English fossil hunter Charles Dawson's 1912 discovery of the "missing link" between apes and humans---and the discovery that this "Piltdown Man" was a fraud some 40 years later.
Chronicles the short history of the Concorde, from the drawing board in the 1950s to its final flight in 2003. Literally faster than a speeding bullet, the elegant SST was popular among jet-setters who could afford its high fares.
Since its sensational unveiling by Yale University in 1965, the Vinland Map has been a lightning rod for debate, yet from the outset scholars in these disciplines pointed out glaring anomalies in the case for the Vinland Map's authenticity
Chronicles Frenchman Louis Bleriot's English Channel crossing in 1909, the first ever, and charts his grandson's attempt to re-create it in one of Bleriot's original planes.
Scientists now think that the Scablands' gorges, dry waterfall beds, scattered boulders and "potholes" were formed some 15,000 years ago when a natural ice dam holding an ancient lake burst.
Volcanologists climb into the caldera of Mount Nyiragongo, an active and unstable volcano, to collect samples the will help determine when, where and how it is likely to erupt next. Two million souls in the nearby city of Goma depend on the results.
Explores the Nazi quest for atomic weapons as it follows a mission to recover barrels of heavy water bound for Berlin from a Norwegian hydroelectric plant.
The auction of some of Newton's papers early in the 20th century uncovers the fact that he had a side other than the genius mathematician and visionary the world knew him as.
An exploration of the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina details failures of levees and disaster-relief planning; why the city was unprepared; and what made Katrina so powerful.
