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Solar System

Series 1 · 5 episodes · Oct 7, 2024

Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries on the diverse worlds that orbit the sun.

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    Episode 1

    Volcano Worlds

    Oct 7, 2024

    Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.

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    Episode 2

    Dark Worlds

    Oct 14, 2024

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

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    Episode 3

    Storm Worlds

    Oct 21, 2024

    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.

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    Episode 4

    Ice Worlds

    Oct 28, 2024

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

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    Episode 5

    Strange Worlds

    Nov 4, 2024

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