Dr Chris Lintott from Oxford University says that while the project is technologically plausible, he does not think they will find the funding.

BBC: Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars

Lintott (played by Frances de la Tour with heartbreaking irony and ferocity) and through the eight young history scholars themselves -- every one of them interesting, each one a new world a-borning.

WSJ: Film Review

"We want people to look through images of the Martian surface - it's a region that's never been explored in this detail before - no one has ever seen these images close up, so we don't know what would be there, " says Dr Lintott.

BBC: Call for public to study Mars images