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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 55 sec.) ; 317523679 bytes |
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Finding Life Beyond Earth takes a spectacular trip to distant realms of our solar system to discover where secret forms of life may lie hidden. Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling CGI animation, this two-part series immerses viewers in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system.Scientists once thought that our neighbouring planets and moons were fairly boring - mostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take hold. Today, however, the solar system looks wilder than they ever imagined. Powerful telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic environments - atmospheres thick with organic molecules, active volcanoes and vast saltwater oceans.This ongoing revolution is forcing the experts to expand their ideas about what kinds of worlds could support life. If they do find primitive life forms elsewhere in the solar system, it may well be that life is common in the universe - the rule, and not the exception. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 2) G CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-01-05 at 14:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Asteroids -- Research.
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Life on other planets -- Research.
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Microorganisms -- Evolution.
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Planetary volcanism.
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Exploration of outer space.
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Mars (Planet)
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Solar system.
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Streaming video
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Twinch, Oliver, director
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O.Sanders, Jay, cast
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Glavin, Danny, contributor
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Green, Jim, contributor
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McKay, Chris, contributor
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Stewart, Sarah, contributor
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