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Earth has an evil twin. Venus. It is shrouded in a lethal atmosphere of carbon dioxide and acid rain. The surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead and the pressure high enough to crush a nuclear submarine.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of rock and iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and it still orbits happily around the sun.

The Amazing Cassini spacecraft and its sibling lander, Huygens, have now concluded their scientific studies, bringing back years of data. Now, Juno piercing the cloak of Jupiter and her distant relative New Horizons at the edge of the solar system.

Soviet Luna 3 was the first to use gravity to change course to photograph the dark side of the Moon. NASA Mariner 10 used the technique to swing by Venus to target Mercury. The gravity sling shot maneuver has become a standard for space navigation.

We have been observing Earth for 40 years now, in the last 20 we have focus with intensity on the planet with new technologies and capabilities, we have accumulated a mass of data that is now revealing a complex and ever changing living planet.

Space is vast, yet it is full of collisions. Gas and dust electrostatically flock together, and gravity takes over coalescing grains into rocks. Those rocks become boulders, then asteroids colliding again and again, striking planets and each other.

Gravity keeps us on the ground and the planets in their orbits, yet we only notice it when it's not there. In space we cheat gravity; falling just as fast but missing the ground. Now this fundamental universal force is slowly giving up its secrets.

The interface between Earth and space is the Ionosphere, a region of rarified gas and charged particles. It is very important for radio communications, radar, satellite signals and global positioning. Yet we know so little about it.

The sky above is studded with stars and countless galaxies. In them, we can read not only our origin, but also our final destination. Technology is on the brink of taking us to places we have only dreamed of.

The moon is our closest celestial companion. It lights our night sky and gently tugs at our shores. Few have walked on her surface, but her allure remains strong.

For most of human history our neighbouring planets were little more that dots of light in the sky with comets and asteroids being a complete mystery.

The development of reliable, high-powered boosters has enabled researchers to send probes to distant planets.

Early in the life of the solar system Mars appears to have had Earth-like conditions.

The ringed planet is of immense interest to researchers who believe that Saturn's ring system will share similarities with the proto-planetary disc.

Currently the only destination for Astronauts and Cosmonauts is the orbiting research platform known as the International Space Station.

For most of human history our neighbouring planets were little more that dots of light in the sky with comets and asteroids being a complete mystery.

New sources of power are transforming people’s lives, particularly in developing countries

Hi-tech is a serious business, but it’s also fun and games.

New tech is allowing all of us to become inventors.

Weather is Mother Nature’s way to remind us how beautiful and fickle she can be.

High tech is revolutionizing the way art is being created.

Plastic is one of mankind’s most revolutionary inventions.

By 2050, astronauts may be using 3D printers to build homes on other planets.

We all have DNA, and it’s being used for a lot more than solving crimes.

Volcanic activity and climate change define Africa's modern geological history. Recently meaning 50 million years ago the Arabian plate snapped off the African continent and joined Southeast Asia.

North America's physical features were formed by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and an ice age. To understand the geological forces at play, we look at the Rockies, the Grand Canyon and Canadian Shield. Also - will part of California become an island?

Central America takes us back to when the world was young. A fragile line of islands linking North and South America, the islands of the Caribbean are recent apparitions on earth and may not be here to stay.

One glance at a map of South America says it all: Andes and Amazonian basin. Two huge geological characteristics that describe how the continent came into being. The Amazon was once under the sea.

Discovering the transport networks of the past.

Examining the history of the Great Wall of China.

Exploring how ancient Egyptian engineers built the monumental Great Pyramid at Giza.

In the Middle Ages, the technology of the castle evolved by leaps and bounds.

By far the largest planet, 1300 times the size of Earth, it’s a world so enormous it could swallow every planet and moon in the solar system and still have room to spare.

Naked Science follows the story of a diamond from the creation of carbon inside the heart of a dying sun, through to the cutting of a diamond mine in South Africa.

Stephen Hawking, though suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has developed a unique understanding of the universe.

They orbit between our planet and our star. Mercury and Venus make up half of our terrestrial planets, but we still know very little about them. As we take a closer look at our companions, we find more questions than answers.

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