Ice Worlds • 2024 • episode "S1E4" • Solar System

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Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.

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Solar System • 2024 • 5 episodes •

Volcano Worlds

Professor Brian Cox journeys to the volcano worlds of the solar system and explore alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent they reach into space. Understanding what makes these worlds active is critical in the search for life beyond Earth.

2024 • Astronomy

Dark Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s hidden realms, between and beyond the planets, where countless worlds lie hiding in the darkness.

2024 • Astronomy

Storm Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s wildest weather, encountering powerful lightning, strange metallic frosts and monsoon rains on a moon a billion kilometres from Earth.

2024 • Astronomy

Ice Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s ice giants, frozen moons and worlds where ice behaves in unimaginable ways.

2024 • Astronomy

Strange Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores the solar system’s misfits and oddballs, and investigates the forces that sculpted the bizarre features on these strange worlds.

2024 • Astronomy

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