Basic Info

First Air: September 02, 2020

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Last Episode

Name: Warnings of a Doomed Planet

Season: 1, Episode: 5

Air Date: 2020-09-02

Runtime: 12 min

Venus is virtually a twin of Earth in size, mass and composition; much more like our planet than is Mars. Yet it has gone down a completely different - and deadly - evolutionary path. Experts share valuable lessons from Venus on the origins of life, acid rain, ozone loss, global warming and other questions. They make the passionate case for further exploring Earth's "evil twin sister."

Exploring Venus

2020 1 seasons 5 episodes

Overview

The second planet from the sun, Venus, with its toxic overheated surface, has long been neglected by planetary mission planners. Lately, Earth's sister planet has taken center stage in one of the greatest quests in science today: the search for life-bearing exo-planets across the Milky Way galaxy. This quest hinges on several essential questions: Why did planet Earth live, and why did Venus die?