Mission to Planet Earth

29th January 1992 55 mins Season 1 Episode 5

The photo of the Earth from space began the transformation of our understand of Earth as a living system. Now the technology developed to explore other planets is being used to monitor this living system and chart a course for a healthy planet in ways that were never possible before the space age.

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