Finding Life Beyond Earth Are we Alone NOVA HD
Take a spectacular trip to distant realms of our solar system to discover where secret forms of life may lie hidden. Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling animation, this program immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system. We used to think our neighboring planets and moons were fairly boringmostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take hold. Today, however, the solar system looks wilder than we ever imagined. Powerful telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic environmentsatmospheres thick with organic molecules, active volcanoes, and vast saltwater ongoing revolution is forcing scientists to expand their ideas about what kinds of worlds could support we do find primitive lifeforms elsewhere in the solar system, it may well be that life is common in the universethe rule, and not the exception
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