The Mars Academy

FRIDAY BLOCK D | 3:30 pm

Four scientists travel to Brazil's City of God, an impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, where they spend two weeks in a local school teaching kids about science. There, they surprise the kids with an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experiment: the chance to do their own exploring of Mars using an actual NASA spacecraft.

HELP US SPREAD THE INSPIRATION OF EXPLORATION AROUND THE WORLD. LEARN MORE: http://www.adastra.world DONATE: https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/ad-astra-academy--2/x/15902062 Four scientists -- an astrobiologist, a planetary scientist, a geochemist, and an astronomer -- travel to Brazil's City of God, an impoverished Rio de Janerio neighborhood, where they spend two weeks in a local school teaching kids about science. When they arrive, they surprise the kids with an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experiment: the chance to do their own exploring on Mars using an actual NASA spacecraft. PRODUCED BY: Jeff Marlow and Hank Leukart DIRECTED BY: Hank Leukart CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hank Leukart, Felipe Carrelli, and Anali Dupré STARRING: Carolyn Crow, Paul Hayne, Jeff Marlow, and Wladimir Lyra