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.
Keywords
Buy
Air Date: 2012-03-04
In this first episode they travel from July to the December solstice, experiencing spectacular weather and the larges...
Air Date: 2012-03-11
In this second episode we travel from January to the March equinox. Kate Humble gets closer to the Sun than she has e...
Air Date: 2012-03-18
In this final episode we complete our journey, travelling back from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble...