Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Name: Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-03-04
Rating: 8.188
Cast: Kate Humble, Helen Czerski

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Documentary

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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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StatusEnded

First AiredMarch 4, 2012

Last AiredMarch 18, 2012

Episode Runtime1sa

Seasons1

Episodes3

TypeScripted

Origin CountryUnited Kingdom

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesFrançais

Keywords

miniseries planet earth

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Last Episode

S1 E3 • 3/18/2012

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.