The Planets
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1:00:00Saturn is the most beautiful looking planet, but it wasn't born that way. Raised in the freezing outer reaches of the solar system, it began life as a strange planet of rock and ice and soon grew to dwarf Earth.
1:00:00There was a beautiful water world, an oasis of hope in a sterile universe but this was not Earth - this was the young Mars. Professor Brian Cox reveals that the solar system was once home to not one, but two blue planets.
1:01:00This is a journey into the furthest edge of our solar system to look at ice giants Uranus and Neptune. (Final)
1:01:00Exploring the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it great power which has manipulated other planets, a power both for good and bad that it wields to this day.
1:01:00Trace the development of the four rocky worlds closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Born together they battled the unbelievable violence of the early solar system to become stable planets.