- 8.2/105 votes
#1 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2019
Professor Brian Cox reveals the history of Saturn. Saturn began life as a strange planet of rock and ice and in time transformed into a gas giant, ring-less and similar looking to its rival, Jupiter.
Director: Nic Stacey
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/104 votes
#2 - Shield
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/9/2018
Earth protects itself from the sun. The David and Goliath story of Earth's relationship with its greatest threat, our seemingly benign Sun. The Sun is the big violent boss of the Solar System, throwing out devastating particles and energy. Without several shields, one generated by our unique planetary core, another by our atmosphere, and a third by our interconnected weather systems… life on Earth would never have survived.
Director: Nic Stacey
Writer: Nic Stacey
- 8.0/103 votes
#3 - Terraform
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/2018
Earth's great paradox. For our planet to become inhabitable for life, you already need life. Ever since life emerged, microbes, plants and animals have all sculpted the planet's surface and air in the strangest of ways; fish poop creates islands; dead animals create mountains; lichen drive continents. But life also has the power to destroy our world. We are changing the climate, but we are not the first to do so. Long before us, microbes froze the planet and almost wiped out all life. The difference between us and them is we are conscious of our actions.
Director: Nic Stacey
Writer: Chris Baron