“Mars” is a TV Series produced by National Geographic. To quote Netflix’s description of the show,

“Fact meets fiction in this hybrid of scripted drama and documentary that chronicles a spacecraft crew’s mission in 2033 to colonize the red planet.”

Here’s a link to the IMBD page. Here’s a reasonable review of the show. Here’s a trailer.

I first saw episodes of Mars while on a flight. I don’t normally watch TV and thus haven’t seen any more. The episodes I did see, though, I enjoyed. The show blends documentary footage of Elon Musk, Niel deGrasse Tyson, and other Mars intellectuals with the fictional story of a Mars Mission. If the Mission is having trouble finding water, the scene will cut to Elon Musk describing the dearth of life-sustaining resources on Mars– and how to fix that problem.

In the episodes I saw, the documentary part of the show was comparing Mars to the Arctic Circle: like Mars, the Arctic is a harsh environment. If we can understand challenges we face in the Arctic, we can apply solutions to Artic challenges to life on Mars.

See the Mars menu for more.