Wonders of the Solar System - Season 1 Episode 4 Dead or Alive
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.
Year: 2010
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC Two
Director:
Cast: Brian Cox
Crew: Chris Holt (Director), Andrew Cohen (Executive Producer), Chris Holt (Writer), Michael Lachmann (Writer), Paul Olding (Writer), Gideon Bradshaw (Director)
First Air Date: Mar 07, 2010
Last Air date: Apr 04, 2010
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 5 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 8.19/10 by 75.00 users
Popularity: 2.7137
Language: English
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