TV series
Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
2012, English, on BBC Two.
Right now you're hurtling around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour (100,000 kms an hour). In the next year you'll travel 584 million miles, to end up back where you started. Presenters Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, to witness the astonishing consequences this journey has for us all.
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 3
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Status
- Ended in 2012
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Latest episode
S1 E3: Tilt
Aired 18 March 2012
Seasons 1
Details
- First aired
- 4 March 2012
- Last aired
- 18 March 2012
- Network
- BBC Two
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey has 1 season and 3 episodes, about 60 minutes each.
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