# MinutePhysics — Why It's HARD To Land on Mars

A hand-drawn whiteboard explainer that shows, one sketch at a time, why Mars is the hardest place to land: the air is too thin for parachutes alone and too thick to skip the heat shield. Each world gets a drawing, a rule, and a success rate, and the argument builds to a single 'worst of both worlds' conclusion.

- Code: EX-0054
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Talking-head explainer
- Brand: MinutePhysics
- Length: 121.7s · 20 beats · 9.9 beats/min · 102 hard cuts
- Industry: Education, Media
- Style: Hand-drawn, Light UI, Voiceover, Handwritten type, Flat 2D, Characters, Playful, Slow and deliberate
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2nqgKL2JQU
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-it-s-hard-to-land-on-mars

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-it-s-hard-to-land-on-mars.