Wonders of the Solar System — S01E05 — Aliens
2010 · 59 MIN · IMDB 8.4 · 102 VOTES
Overview
Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. Brian descends to the bottom of the Pacific in a submarine to witness the extraordinary life forms that survive in the cold, black waters. All life on Earth needs water so the search for aliens in the solar system has followed the search for water. Soaring above the dramatic Scablands of the United States, Brian discovers how the same landscape has been found on Mars. And it was all carved out in a geological heartbeat by a monumental flood. Armed with a gas mask, Brian enters a cave in Mexico where bacteria breathe toxic gas and leak concentrated acid. Yet relatives of these creatures could be surviving in newly-discovered caves on Mars.
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00:00:09 We live on a world of wonders.
00:03:10 one of the world's most rugged submarines.
00:05:54 Well, I would say no.
00:08:24 there's a brutal mixture of hot and cold water,
00:10:46 that powers the processes of life.
00:13:16 The Earth is the only planet that currently has liquid water on its surface.
00:15:53 Yeah, a massive wave rolling, rumbling, this water would
00:18:33 This is a picture taken of the surface of Mars,
00:21:09 you can't really get to know another planet from orbit.
00:23:57 that there must have been big areas of water present for a very long time.
00:26:16 and too dry to support life.
00:28:57 Because it's full of hydrogen sulphide gas, hence
00:31:31 on the Earth
00:33:28 beneath the surface of Mars?
00:35:47 Those first measurements appeared to show only tiny amounts.
00:38:11 The planets, like Saturn, are made of gas, not rock.
00:40:38 And they're a varied bunch.
00:43:21 And that stresses the ice and causes it to fracture and crack.
00:46:14 It's what astro-biologists find in this ice
00:48:20 because they generate, essentially, anti-freeze proteins.
00:50:58 amongst the billions of galaxies in the universe, that harbors life?
00:53:39 Solid worlds condensed out of the swirling mists.
00:56:20 A species that has developed to the point where we can bend
00:59:03 go to BBC.co.uk/science.
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Wonders of the Solar System, season 1, episode 5: Aliens.
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