The shooting of 'UPWARDS: Re-thinking MARS' has ended

Sep 12, 2015

After three weeks of filming across Europe, the shooting part of the documentary about the Red Planet 'UPWARDS: Re-Thinking MARS' has finished.

Ann Carine Vandaele   Özgur Karatekin
Head of Planetary Aeronomy Division at Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale   Senior Research Scientist at Royal Observatory of Belgium (ORB)
de Belgique (IASB)   Brussels (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)

Franck Montmessin Francois Forget
Senior scientist of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Senior scientist of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at LMD
in LATMOS Paris (France)
Paris (France)

(Right to Left) Marco Giuranna, Anna Geminale & Giuseppe Sindoni Giancarlo Bellucci
Marco Giurana is a research scientist for the Instituto di Astrofisica Senior researcher at Planetary division of INAF-IAPS
e Planetologia Spaziali (IASP) of the INAF Rome (Italy)
Anna Geminale is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto di Astrofisica
e Planetologia Spaziali (IASP) of the INAF
Giuseppe Sindoni is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto di Astrofisica
e Planetologia Spaziali (IASP) of the INAF
Rome (Italy)

Manish R. Patel & Stephen Lewis
Lecturers in the Planetary and Space Sciences discipline at the Open University
Milton Keynes (United Kindom)

Jorge Vago Hakan Svedhem
ESA's ExoMars Project Scientist ESA's Venus Express Project Scientist
Noordwijk (The Netherlands) Noordwijk (The Netherlands)

Francisco Galindo & Maya García-Comas Miguel Ángel López-Valverde - UPWARDS Project Coordinator
Francisco Galindo is a researcher in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Staff scientist at Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía with over 20 years of
Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) experience in the research of planetary atmosphere
Maya García-Comas is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher fellow at Granada (Spain)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
Granada (Spain)

Javier Ruiz & Laura Parro
Javier Ruiz is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher Fellow at the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid
Laura Parro is a PhD student at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)

(Left to right) Leo Metcalfe, Alejandro Cardesin & Patrick Martin Christophe Arviset
Leo Metcalfe ESA/ESAC Herschel Science Centre (HSC) Head of the Science Archives and Computer Engineering at ESA/ESAC
Alejandro Cardesin is a Solar System Science Operations Engineer Madrid (Spain)
and Researcher at ESA/ESAC
Patrick Martin is the Rosetta, Mars Express and Venus Express
Mission Manager at European Space Agency
Madrid (Spain)

22 researchers from 6 different countries has been filmed. They all, international experts on Mars, has talked about the importance of thinking in the Red Planet as a whole system. The cycle of water, the dust storms, the atmosphere, the surface and subsurface... it is all conected.

The next mission to Mars, EXOMARS, will be a key target in the video. We even asked the experts about the possibility of sending humans to our Solar System neighborg. It doesn't look like a real medium term goal for them....

Now, we are focused in editing the video. We'll share it as soon as we have it ready!