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The Earth hurtles through space protected by an invisible force field, known as a magnetosphere.

Almost every culture on Earth tells the story of an ancient flood – details vary but the basic plot is the same - An angry God wipes out an unrepentant population.

Superflares are amongst the greatest events of the Universe. These magnetic explosions can release energy millions of times greater than atomic bombs. They produce streams of highly energetic particles which can be highly destructive to life.

Astronauts and Cosmonauts train and study for years to work and live aboard the International Space Station. With this wealth of experience and insight behind them what do they think when they return to Earth?

Our atmosphere is an unbelievably complex machine that protects us from the vacuum of space, shelters us from harmful radiation and allows us and the biosphere to breath; we need to learn much more about it so we can better it.

The next 12 months will see an intense rise in flight tests, demonstration launches and high priority flights. Some are on time others are not. We check the flight status of some of this new hardware and these new capabilities.

For over 50 years we have bombarded Mars with our probes and landers. Spying from orbit to map terrain, finding her strengths and weaknesses. The time nearing for the full scale invasion of the planet- when humans walk on Mars and claim it for their own.

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.

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.

The solar system's largest planet has been visited by automated probes since the 1970s.

Before spaceflight aviators began wearing pressure suits to allow them to function at higher ceilings.

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 Sun is our star. Its energy enables life on the Earth to thrive yet we know so little about the solar weather and the 11 year solar cycle.

Space telescopes orbiting above the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere, such as the Hubble, have made incredible contributions to our knowledge of the universe.

Scientists and engineers have long realized that mother nature is the world’s most talented designer

By 2050, the workplace will look far different than it does now, and one reason is robots.

There will be two BILLION more people on Earth in 2050, and feeding everyone will be a challenge.

Man and machine are meeting in strange and productive ways.

By the year 2050, cops and robbers won’t look anything like it did in the past.

Some of the biggest breakthroughs as we approach 2050, are happening in medicine.

Even before 2050, man and machine are meeting in ways only dreamed of by sci-fi writers.

In 2050 we’ll be living underwater, and plans are underway to live in caves on the Moon’s surface.

Mobsters, jazz, and turbulent economic times mark the 1920s. Silent film makes the transition to the talkies as sound comes to the silver screen. Criminals find that there's one less place to hide with the invention of the lie detector.

Though overshadowed by the Great Depression, there is no shortage of ingenuity in the 1930s. The two-way radio gets miniaturized, and the world's first portable walkie-talkie goes on the air.

War is the driving force behind much of the innovation in the 1940s. The microwave is born after a self-taught inventor realizes that military equipment is responsible for melting a chocolate bar in his pocket.

The 1950s heralds the end of vacuum tubes and the rise of mobile technologies when two Japanese inventors shrink cabinet-size radios down to something small enough to fit in your pocket.

Even before the start of recorded history, ancient engineers were erecting giant monuments.

Awe-inspiring palaces are the legacy that demonstrates the brilliance of Islamic engineers.

Stadiums have been regarded as architectural masterpieces, none more so than the Colosseum in Rome.

How gold is mined and transformed into everyday objects like jewelry and currency.

Hurricanes are one of the most destructive weather events to strike our planet and have the same power as a nuclear weapon.

The earth is 4.5 billion years old and it is slowly dying. Tectonic activity is slowly cooling the planet – the continents will eventually move together to form a new supercontinent called Pangea Ultima.

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