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BBC HD - Disc 02
Wonders of the Solar System
> Dead or Alive
> Aliens

Dead or Alive (4/5)

    Professor Brian  Cox visits  some of  the most  stunning
    locations on Earth  to describe how  the laws of  nature
    have carved natural wonders across the solar system.
    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.

Aliens (5/5)

    Professor Brian  Cox visits  some of  the most  stunning
    locations on earth  to describe how  the laws of  nature
    have carved natural wonders across the solar system.
    Brian  descends  to  the  bottom  of  the  Pacific  in a
    submarine to witness  the extraordinary life  forms that
    survive in  the cold,  black waters.  All life  on Earth
    needs water so the search for aliens in the solar system
    has followed the search for water.
    Soaring  above  the  dramatic  Scablands  of  the United
    States, Brian discovers how the same landscape has  been
    found on Mars. And it was all carved out in a geological
    heartbeat by a monumental flood.
    Armed with  a gas  mask, Brian  enters a  cave in Mexico
    where bacteria breathe  toxic gas and  leak concentrated
    acid.  Yet  relatives   of  these  creatures   could  be
    surviving in newly-discovered caves on Mars.
    But  Brian's  sixth  wonder  isn't  a  planet  at   all.
    Jupiter's moon Europa is  a dazzling ball of  ice etched
    with  strange ***s.  The patterns  in the  ice reveal
    that, far below, there is an ocean with more potentially
    life-giving water than all the oceans on Earth.
    Of all  the wonders  of the  solar system  forged by the
    laws of  nature, there  is one  that stands  out. In the
    final episode of this series, Brian reveals the greatest
    wonder of them all.
    
Spot info:
Source: DVB PAL 1440x1080/50i/16:9
AVCHD Disc Information
Format               : AVCHD-iso dvd9 udf 2.5
Video:
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Codec profile        : High@L4.1
Video Codec          : x264
Bit rate             : 8560 kbps
Resolution           : 1440x1080p
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate           : 25 fps

Audio:
Codec                : AC3 untouched
Bit rate             : 384 Kbps 
Channel(s)           : 6 channels
Sampling rate        : 48.0 KHz
Language             : English

Subtitles:
English, PGS (selectable)

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