Trip to MARS!

Brian Cox thinks NASA's latest mission could hold the key to understanding mankind's origins...

- NATASHA HOLT, SEAN MARLAND

BRIAN COX: SEVEN DAYS ON MARS

Friday, 9pm, BBC2 Factual

Scientists have been pondering how life began for centuries, and Professor Brian Cox believes we could be closer than ever to finding the answers...

In February last year, NASA's Perseverance touched down after a 293-million-mile journey to Mars and began exploring Jezero crater, which around 3.8 billion years ago was filled with a lake.