Space: Flying Visits | A roller-coaster ride through the solar system
Space: Flying Visits | New Worlds
The Sun brings our planet life, but will one day destroy it.
CHANNEL | BBC Four
FIRST BROADCAST | 25 July 2005
DURATION | 9 minutes 9 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
2005
Synopsis
The Sun is getting hotter and one day life on Earth will become impossible. This edition of 'Space: Flying Visits' looks at the planets that might become mankind's next home and asks what changes would be necessary to make them habitable.
The facts in this programme were correct at the time of first broadcast.
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