Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Name: Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Kate Humble, Helen Czerski

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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Ended

Original Name

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

First Air Date

March 4, 2012

Last Air Date

March 18, 2012

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Language

French

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BBC Two

S01E03

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.

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