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What on Earth? — Season 1

20156 episodes6.0/10 (6 votes)

About this season

Satellites orbit Earth at 17,000 miles an hour, capturing images of our world that are breathtaking, but some are bizarre. This unique perspective reveals objects that seem to make no sense & phenomena that defy explanation. Such images force the question, what on Earth is that?

Episodes (6)

Lake of Blood
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1. Lake of Blood

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Aired 10 February 2015 • 44 min

A massive tsunami hundreds of feet high that never touches land; a secret underground base in China; an image from space may have revealed the location of the Garden of Eden.

Lost City of Gold
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2. Lost City of Gold

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Aired 17 February 2015 • 44 min

Weird barren rings in the Namib Desert, an island the size of Manhattan that vanishes without trace and a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. What on Earth? Investigates six more mysteries captured from space.

Secrets of the Sahara
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3. Secrets of the Sahara

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Aired 24 February 2015 • 44 min

First seen from space in 1965, the Eye of the Sahara is a beautiful 25 mile structure, but how it formed remains a mystery. And are extraordinary clouds emanating from an island in the Indian Ocean evidence of a terrifying new weather weapon?

Finding Sodom
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4. Finding Sodom

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Aired 3 March 2015 • 44 min

NASA astronaut Mike Barratt, describes photographing a strange ring in the ice on the world's oldest and most mysterious lake from the International Space Station. More rings on Lake Baikal have been seen since, they baffle scientists.

North Korea is Burning
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5. North Korea is Burning

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Aired 10 March 2015 • 44 min

A possible smoke screen over North Korea worries military analysts while an amateur archaeologist makes an extraordinary discovery with the help of a satellite image; has this image revealed not one but two forgotten pyramids in Egypt?

Nazi Ice Fortress
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6. Nazi Ice Fortress

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Aired 17 March 2015 • 44 min

Images of earth from space reveal an intimate portrait of human activity. Cities glow bright while the wilderness remains dark. Why then is the Australian outback, lit up like a series of vast cities?

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