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It mostly consisted of different views of the Dan Maas animation , intercut with a few rover images and some shots of an engineering model of the rover crawling around some rugged terrain on Earth . As the " cosmic zoom " hurled viewers to the outer limits of the universe , plunged them down to the domain of the quark , and sent them tumbling back through billions of years , one factor of ten at a time , she was terrified — terrified by her growing realization of the insignificance of Earth and its creatures . Paleoclimatic records reconstructed from ice cores and other sources of data provide evidence that the Earth 's long-term climate varied significantly prior to about 10,000 years ago . Under Earth conditions , the semiconductor alloy would have solidified in crystalline form .