One Day on Mars
2016 | Canada | Directed by Maxime Pivin Lapointe | Produced by Montreal Space for Life’s Rio Tinto
Alcan Planetarium
25 min
Licensing
Take a “road trip” to the Red Planet and enjoy a fascinating, thrilling immersive experience set to the driving beat of an original soundtrack by Dumas. You’ll dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds that sweep across the icy dunes. As you explore a world that humans may well visit within the next few decades, to your surprise you may well be surprised to find yourself hoping to discover traces of life there.
Credits
A Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Production | Montréal Space for Life © 2016
Director and Writer
Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Executive Producer
Sébastien Gauthier
Music by
DUMAS
Narration
Claudia Besso
Sound Design and Mixing
Benoît Dame
Script
Loïc Quesnel
Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Isabelle Pruneau-Brunet
Art Director and Visual Effects Supervisor
François Guinaudeau
Assistant Director
Nicolas Didtsch
Production Coordinator
Jade-Anaïs Généreux-Gamache
4k x 4k Dome Master Editor
Arnaud Mariat
Visual Effects, Graphic Design and Compositing
François Guinaudeau
Nicolas Didtsch
Antonin Gaud
Pierre-Guilhem Roudet
Arnaud Mariat
Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Additional Postproduction
Bruno Colpron
Sébastien Gauthier
Musical Project Codirected
DUMAS
Martin Roy
Music Composed by
DUMAS
Arrangements
DUMAS
Martin Roy
String Arrangements
Martin Roy
MUSICIANS
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DUMAS
Guitars, Bass, Pianos, Voices, Synthesizers and Programming
Martin Roy
Double Bass, Bass, Synthesizers and Guitars
Jocelyn Doctor Tellier
Electric Guitars
Jean-Luc Huet
Acoustic Guitars
Pascal Racine-Venne
Drums on Vénus et Mars
les4ailes
Amélie Lamontagne
Edith Fitzgerald
Sarah Martineau
Camille Paquette-Roy
Strings
Musical selections
Un jour sur Mars ( 1 & 2 )
MRO
Valles Marineris
Hellas Planitia
Vénus et Mars
Les martiens
Plaines dorées
Retour sur Terre
Music Mix
Martin Roy
Dominic Despins
Sound Recording technicians - Music
Dominic Despins
Marc-Antoine Desjardins
Sound Mix and Spatialization
Benoît Dame
Music recorded in Montréal at
Planet Studios
Studio Chapman
Studio D
Voice Over Director
Nicolas Charbonneaux, Syllabe
Casting Director
Stéphanie Lamontagne, Syllabe
Sound Recording technician - Voice Over
Geoffrey Mitchell, NFB
Narration recorded in Montréal at
National Film Board of Canada’s studios
360° Filming
Bruno Colpron
Sébastien Gauthier
Multi-camera 360° Image Stitching
Bruno Colpron
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Technicians
Patrick Cournoyer
Mathieu Forcier
Simon Gauthier
Patrick Geoffroy
Space for Life Director
Charles-Mathieu Brunelle
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Directors
Pierre Lacombe
Olivier Hernandez
Administrative Support
Richard Brunet
Gaëtane Daoust
Sophie Gerbeau
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK
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Scientific Validation
Tim Haltigin, Canadian Space Agency
Marc Jobin, Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
Script Consultants
Philippe Baylaucq
Isabelle Pruneau-Brunet
François Dion
Logo Design
Sophie DesRosiers
Information Technology
Jean-François Martin
Antoine Josnin
Camera Rental
Georges Aubin
Félix Morin, Royal Photo
Filming
Municipalité de Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Robert Daigneault Ferme l’or blanc
Extras
Léa Chavarria
Joshua Chavarria
Sébastien Gauthier
Chantal Labonté
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Presenters
Yann Audin
Geneviève Beaunoyer
Marc-André Bédard
Simon A. Bélanger
André Bordeleau
Claude Champoux
Myriam Latulippe
Gwenn Moullec
Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Loïc Quesnel
Sarah Tremblay-Bourgeois
Bianca Valletta
Presenters’ Coach
Véronique Pascal
Presenter Team Coordinator
Etienne Laurence
Script Translation
Ronald Rosenthall
Louie Bernstein
Neil Smith
Guidetrack Performers
Sandy Belley
André Bordeleau
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Managers
Carl-Éric Faubert
Stéphane Morin
Dominique Vachon
ARCHIVE CREDITS
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360° PHOTOGRAPHS
Hawaii
Nicolas Didtsch, SIXSIX Media
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Alexey Miroshnikov, Grades Photo, 360Cities
Eiffel Tower
Markus Matern, 360Cities
Himalayas and Mount Everest
Arroz Marisco, 360Cities
Launch of Soyuz rocket at Baikonur
Andrew Bodrov, 360Cities
Curiosity Panoramas
Raw Data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ MSSS
Editing: Damia Bouic
IMAGES AND MODELS
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Mars Telescope Video
Roch Lévesque
Earth Maps
NASA’s Earth Observatory/Globaïa
Sky Maps
ESO and NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Curiosity Rover 3D Model
Ron L. Long
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 3D Model
PerspectX/CG trader
MARS 3D MODELS
Texture
Viking Global Color Mosaic (MDIM1 controlled) 925m, USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Landscape
MOLA 128ppd Numeric
Elevation
NASA MGS/MOLA
Cloud Maps
Bob Hegwood/Maxime Pivin Lapointe
RSL Images
ESP_034830_1670, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
ESP_034962_1670, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
GALE CRATER
Sol530_Mastcam34 - Dingo Gap
NASA/JPL/MSSS/Damia Bouic
Sol170_176_Mastcam34 - Yellowknife Bay
NASA/JPL/MSSS/Damia Bouic
Sol1197_Mastcam34 - Namib Dune
NASA/JPL/MSSS/Damia Bouic
Inserts
PIA16188, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Hottah (PIA17062), NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
John Klein (PIA16726), NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
John Klein, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo
Earth and Moon PSP_005558_9040, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
INCA CITY
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: ESP_022699_0985
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEPC_022699_0985_022607_0985_A01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H2167_0000_ND4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): H2167_0000_DT4
HELLAS PLANITIA
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: ESP_021893_1315
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEEC_021893_1315_021603_1315_A01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H2272_0001_ND4
Digital Terrain Model: H2272_0001_DT4
OLYMPUS MONS
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: PSP_001432_2015
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEEC_001432_2015_001630_2015_U01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H0143_0009_ND4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): H0143_0009_DT4
OLYMPUS MONS (CALDERA)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: PSP_007669_1980
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Images: H0037_0000_ND4 and H0912_0000_ND4 Digital Terrain Model (DTM):
H0037_0000_DT4 and H0912_0000_DT4
VALLES MARINERIS
Mars Odyssey/THEMIS
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University
Image: Valles Marineris Mosaic
COPRATES MONTES (VALLES MARINERIS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: ESP_020879_1670
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEED_020879_1670_021657_1670_A01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H2006_0000_ND4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): H2006_0000_DT4
GARNI CRATER (VALLES MARINERIS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: ESP_027802_1685
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEEC_027802_1685_028501_1685_A01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H0515_0000_ND4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): H0515_0000_DT4
ARES VALLIS
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Images: H0923_0000_ND4, H0934_0000_ND4 and H0912_0000_ND4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM):
H0923_0000_DT4, H0934_0000_DT4 and H0912_0000_DT4
MAWRTH VALLIS
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Image: PSP_002074_2025
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): DTEEC_002074_2025_002140_2025_U01
Mars Express/HRSC
HRSCview/Freie Universität Berlin/DLR Berlin
Image: H5199_0000_DA4
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): H5199_0000_DT4
A Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Production | Montréal Space for Life © 2016
Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Director and Writer
Since the age of 18, Maxime Pivin Lapointe has dedicated his career to science education and communication. Holding a bachelor’s degree in secondary science education with a minor in physics, he spent a few years teaching before turning to his true passion: sharing his fascination with the Universe at the college level. He devoted over ten years to observing and presenting the night sky in the Mégantic region before traveling across Quebec to give lectures in high schools and CEGEPs. Since 2013, he has brought his expertise in science communication and visual design to the Rio Tinto Planetarium team, where he creates immersive experiences that combine scientific accuracy with visual storytelling. A Day on Mars is part of this ambitious and thoughtful approach to science outreach.