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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

20121 Season60m episodes8.2

Documentary

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Right now you're hurtling around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour (100,000 kms an hour). In the next year you'll travel 584 million miles, to end up back where you started. Presenters Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, to witness the astonishing consequences this journey has for us all.

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Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany.

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Director: Arif Nurmohamed, Charles Colville
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 4, 2012
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Kate Humble

Self - Presenter

Helen Czerski

Self - Presenter

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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

20121 Season60m episodes8.2

Documentary

TMDB8.2

Votes16

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Mar 4, 2012 · 1h 0m
The Pathway
In this first episode they travel from July to the December solstice, experiencing spectacular weather and the largest tides on Earth. To show how the Earth's orbit affects our lives, Helen jumps out of an aeroplane and Kate briefly becomes the fastest driver on Earth.
E2 · Airs Mar 11, 2012 · 1h 0m
Spin
In this second episode we travel from January to the March equinox. Kate Humble gets closer to the Sun than she has ever been before, whilst Helen Czerski visits a place that gets some of the biggest and fastest snowstorms on Earth.
E3 · Airs Mar 18, 2012 · 1h 0m
Tilt
In this final episode we complete our journey, travelling back from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble is in the Arctic at a place where spring arrives with a bang, whilst Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on earth.

Details

Director: Arif Nurmohamed, Charles Colville
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 4, 2012
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Kate Humble

Self - Presenter

Helen Czerski

Self - Presenter

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