Episode guide
One Strange Rock: Season 1
10 episodes · premiered Mar 26, 2018
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- Episode 1: Gasp Mar 26, 2018 · 47m Our perfectly calibrated, breathing planet. For those privileged few who have seen Earth from space, the very first thing they notice is the thin blue line of atmosphere that clings to our…
- Episode 2: Storm Apr 2, 2018 · 47m A planet sculpted from cosmic violence. Earth is a very lucky planet. It has ended up the right size and in the right place. This only happened because of violent cosmic collisions. The…
- Episode 3: Shield Apr 9, 2018 · 47m Earth protects itself from the sun. The David and Goliath story of Earth's relationship with its greatest threat, our seemingly benign Sun. The Sun is the big violent boss of the Solar…
- Episode 4: Genesis Apr 16, 2018 · 47m Earth gives birth to life. The building blocks of life are common across the universe, but life is rare. What's so special about Earth that it emerged here? Only here on Earth have we…
- Episode 5: Survival Apr 23, 2018 · 47m Earth, the great killer. Without the cycle of death and sacrifice, from cellular to planetary, life would not be here. From the deaths of stars, to planetary scale mass extinctions and the…
- Episode 6: Escape Apr 30, 2018 · 47m We are all planets. Is it possible for intelligent life to escape destruction, either from the planet or ourselves? Or are we destined for extinction like 99% of all species before us? Our…
- Episode 7: Terraform May 7, 2018 · 47m Earth's great paradox. For our planet to become inhabitable for life, you already need life. Ever since life emerged, microbes, plants and animals have all sculpted the planet's surface…
- Episode 8: Alien May 14, 2018 · 47m The freak accident behind complex life. All life on earth started as single cell bacteria and stayed like that for 2 billion years. Successfully spreading across the planet. So even if we…
- Episode 9: Awakening May 21, 2018 · 47m Your brain is an anomaly. We tend to think that once the first life emerged it was inevitable that it would eventually evolve into us. But there is nothing inevitable about consciousness…
- Episode 10: Home May 28, 2018 · 47m There's no place like home. We wrap up the series with the story of NASA's most experienced female astronaut, Peggy Whitson, as she returns home to earth. We might possibly be the only…