Colourful Planet
From space, Earth is a kaleidoscope. Turquoise plankton blooms trigger a feeding frenzy, China turns yellow with rapeseed flowers, and mysterious green lights appear in the ocean.
We think of the Earth as a blue planet, but satellite cameras reveal it to be a kaleidoscope. The astonishing colours of the aurora are towering vertical streaks, hundreds of kilometres high, phytoplankton blooms turn the ocean into works of art, triggering a feeding frenzy, and for a few weeks a year China's Yunnan province is carpeted in yellow as millions of rapeseed flowers bloom.
This is our home, as we鈥檝e never seen it before.
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Animals from space
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Phytoplankton from space
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Web exclusive - Dance of the Aurora
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Pieter de Graaf
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Chiwetel Ejiofor |
| Executive Producer | Jo Shinner |
| Series Producer | Chloe Sarosh |
| Producer | Justin Anderson |
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