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Venus: The Planet With Battery Acid Clouds

The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in the solar system.
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Season 51 Episodes

Lost Tombs of Notre Dame
S51 E18 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 12/18/24

Building Stuff: Change It!
S51 E17 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 11/27/24

Building Stuff: Reach It!
S51 E16 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 11/20/24

Building Stuff: Boost It!
S51 E15 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 11/13/24

Decoding the Universe: Quantum
S51 E14 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 11/06/24

Solar System: Wandering Worlds
S51 E13 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/30/24

Solar System: Icy Worlds
S51 E12 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/23/24

Solar System: Volcano Worlds
S51 E11 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/16/24

Solar System: Strange Worlds
S51 E10 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/09/24

Solar System: Storm Worlds
S51 E9 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/02/24

Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
S51 E8 Length 53:38 Premiere Date 05/22/24

Secrets in Your Data
S51 E7 Length 53:40 Premiere Date 05/15/24

Great American Eclipse
S51 E6 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 04/03/24

A.I. Revolution
S51 E5 Length 53:30 Premiere Date 03/27/24

Hunt for the Oldest DNA
S51 E4 Length 53:10 Premiere Date 02/21/24

Building the Eiffel Tower
S51 E3 Length 53:15 Premiere Date 02/14/24

Easter Island Origins
S51 E2 Length 53:17 Premiere Date 02/07/24

When Whales Could Walk
S51 E1 Length 53:35 Premiere Date 01/31/24

Venus: The Planet With Battery Acid Clouds
Clip Length 03:27 Premiere Date 10/02/24

How the Martian Atmosphere Helped Nasa’s Rovers Restore Energy
Clip Length 02:59 Premiere Date 10/02/24

Solar System: Storm Worlds Preview
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 09/17/24

First ape ever seen using medicinal plant to treat wound
Clip Length 01:58 Premiere Date 06/18/24

Total Eclipse in the Heart of Texas Hill Country
Clip Length 06:41 Premiere Date 06/03/24

Are winters getting less snowy?
Clip Length 04:49 Premiere Date 05/03/24

New map of the universe hints that dark energy may be evolving
Clip Length 03:00 Premiere Date 05/03/24

How America watched the solar eclipse
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 04/12/24

How to watch the eclipse without burning your eyes
Clip Length 01:59 Premiere Date 04/01/24

The discovery of worlds beyond our solar system
Clip Length 01:39 Premiere Date 03/25/24

Rare stellar explosion will ignite a "new star"
Clip Length 01:17 Premiere Date 03/25/24

The force that makes up more than half of the universe
Clip Length 01:40 Premiere Date 03/12/24

How parrots swing like monkeys
Clip Length 01:36 Premiere Date 02/15/24

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Chasing Pluto - S42 E13

Premiered On: 07/15/2015

The New Horizon's spacecraft will fly by and take the first detailed images of Pluto. It is the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey.

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Pluto and Beyond - S46 E1

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Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by NASA's most distant target yet. Since it explored Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles from Earth.

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Return to the Moon - S53 E8

Follow the Artemis II engineers and crew on a perilous 10-day journey to orbit the Moon.

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Human: Origins - S52 E12

Trace the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

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Black Hole Universe - S45 E2

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Black Hole Apocalypse - S45 E1

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Revolutionary War Weapons - S52 E7

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Athens: Birth of Democracy - S53 E7

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Ancient Desert Death Trap - S52 E17

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Secrets of the Forest - S52 E8

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