He kills the two-man expedition, astronauts Nathaniel York and Bert Conover, as soon as they arrive. Her husband, though he pretends to deny the reality of the dreams, becomes bitterly jealous, sensing his wife's confused romantic feelings for one of the astronauts. On Mars, Ylla (a Martian woman trapped in a loveless marriage) dreams of the coming astronauts through telepathy. The Zeus project represents the beginning of a major effort by NASA and NATO to explore and eventually colonize the outer planets. The next scene places the viewer at the Kennedy Space Center in January 1999 when the first 'Zeus I' crewed spacecraft to Mars is carried into orbit by a Saturn V rocket. At the close of the scene the camera pans back to show a larger view of the probe's landing area, with what appears to be indigenous Martian settlements in the surrounding terrain, with the narrator noting that, 'If the probe had landed just a few miles further on, things might have been different.' Afterwards the opening credits roll. Each has its convincing arguments, but ultimately the probe indicates that Mars does not harbor life. As the narrator is speaking, the viewer becomes aware that there are two viewpoints at NASA amongst the scientists who launched the probe: One group obviously believes Mars is uninhabited, the other is open to the possibility of indigenous life on the planet. A narrator explains that the purpose of the probe is to determine whether Mars is inhabited.

The first episode starts at the scene of Viking 1 uncrewed probe landing on the surface of the planet Mars in July 1976. The miniseries was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Richard Matheson. The series depicts Mars as having a 'thin atmosphere' which humans can breathe, with water-filled canals and desert-like vegetation. It was aired on NBC in January 1980 in three episodes with a total running time of just over four hours (nearly five hours on the DVD version). The series starred Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Bernadette Peters, Roddy McDowall, Fritz Weaver, Barry Morse, and Maria Schell. The Martian Chronicles is a 1980 television three-episode miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's 1950 book The Martian Chronicles and dealing with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there. American TV series or program The Martian Chronicles

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