Earth from Space

00:00:00 NARRATOR: Our planet: Earth.

00:04:41 to nourish and drive life forward in all its diversity?

00:08:55 would be about the size of a dime.

00:13:04 is producing millions of tons of water vapor every hour.

00:17:17 burst up from near the center of the storm.

00:22:03 how energy moves throughout the globe

00:27:51 below minus 110 degrees Fahrenheit

00:33:21 The winds of the polar jet

00:38:25 releasing tens of trillions of tons of dense brine

00:43:22 The purple area is the brine.

00:48:08 and complex animals and plants to evolve.

00:53:52 This footage was taken with a remotely operated submarine

00:58:31 This plankton is the base of the food chain for marine life.

01:03:50 studying the composition of rocks that make up our planet.

01:09:29 The effect of all this natural fertilizer

01:14:05 in the atmosphere was essential for the evolution of large

01:18:57 almost a closed system in itself-- almost.

01:24:15 From this information it's possible to build a picture

01:29:52 on earth by looking at its heat signature in infrared.

01:34:49 of many of the world's ecosystems.

01:39:29 The sun emits constant light

01:44:33 As the radiation strikes the upper atmosphere

01:48:39 not what we might fear it to be doing

25:00:00 square miles.