Collections — Planets, moons & the vacuum beyond
Other Worlds
The panel's curiosity doesn't stop at the atmosphere. These are the places the show wandered to that aren't on Earth at all: the planets, a demoted dwarf, our own Moon and the galaxy that holds the lot, pinned to the top of the map because the sea runs out long before they do.
6 places in this collection
- 1Mars
It was built because they knew that there were indentations on Mars and they wanted to establish whether or not they were made by Martians.
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The highest mountain on Venus is called Maxwell Montes, named after a male physicist.
Open this place → - 3Milky Way
The Milky Way is supposedly corrugated — it's like a disc of matter and stars, but it has ridges in it.
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- 5Moon
There's a chance there are fossils on the Moon: bacteria from the very earliest days of life on Earth, blasted off the planet and buried under the lunar surface.
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