Solar System: Volcano Worlds Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system.
Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds in our cosmic neighborhood – and what makes the volcanoes right here on Earth so special.
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Solar System: Volcano Worlds Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds in our cosmic neighborhood – and what makes the volcanoes right here on Earth so special.
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- [Narrator] We see huge volcanic eruptions, blasting out into space - Volcanoes that can get that big, that it can tip a planet.
- These volcanoes can help answer that question of where you and I came from, how life first began.
- [Narrator] "Volcano Worlds," on NOVA.
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