Dead or Alive
Professor Brian Cox travels to the tallest mountain on Earth to show how something as basic as a planet's size can make the difference between life and death.
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.
The worlds that surround our planet are all made of rock, but there the similarity ends. Some have a beating geological heart, others are frozen in time. Brian travels to the tallest mountain on Earth, the volcano Mauna Kea on Hawaii, to show how something as basic as a planet's size can make the difference between life and death. Even on the summit of this volcano, Brian would stand in the shade of the tallest mountain in the solar system, an extinct volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons, which rises up 27 km.
Yet the fifth wonder in the series isn't on a planet at all. It's on a tiny moon of Jupiter. The discoveries made on Io have been astonishing. This fragment of rock should be cold and dead, yet, with the volcanic landscape of eastern Ethiopia as a backdrop, Brian reveals why Io is home to extraordinary lakes of lava and giant volcanic plumes that erupt 500 km into the sky.
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Tracking killer asteroids
Duration: 03:16
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Valles Marineris on Mars
Duration: 02:00
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Olympus Mons on Mars
Duration: 04:45
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Volcanoes on Io
Duration: 05:21
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UNKLE
Nocturnal
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Brian Cox |
Director | Paul Olding |
Series Producer | Danielle Peck |
Executive Producer | Andrew Cohen |
Broadcasts
- Sun 28 Mar 2010 21:00大象传媒 HD & 大象传媒 Two
- Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:00大象传媒 Two except Wales
- Wed 31 Mar 2010 00:10大象传媒 HD
- Wed 31 Mar 2010 19:00大象传媒 Two Wales
- Sat 1 May 2010 20:00
- Sun 2 May 2010 02:20
- Thu 27 May 2010 02:00
- Tue 12 Oct 2010 23:50大象传媒 Two Wales & England only
- Wed 13 Oct 2010 00:35大象传媒 Two Scotland
- Wed 24 Nov 2010 19:00大象传媒 HD
- Thu 25 Nov 2010 00:45大象传媒 HD
- Sat 27 Nov 2010 18:15大象传媒 HD
- Thu 30 Dec 2010 19:00
- Wed 13 Apr 2011 23:20大象传媒 Two except Scotland
- Wed 13 Apr 2011 23:30大象传媒 Two Scotland
- Tue 31 Jan 2012 23:00大象传媒 HD
- Thu 28 Jun 2012 20:00
- Fri 29 Jun 2012 02:15
- Sun 1 Jul 2012 00:25
- Fri 13 Feb 2015 00:00
- Thu 5 Dec 2019 20:00
- Fri 6 Dec 2019 02:30
- Thu 1 Sep 2022 00:25