What on Earth?

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201544m

Satellites orbit Earth at 17,000 miles an hour, capturing images of our world that are breathtaking, but some are bizarre. This unique perspective reveals objects that seem to make no sense & phenomena that defy explanation. Such images force the question, what on Earth is that?

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6 Episodes • Premiered 2015

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1. Lake of Blood

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A massive tsunami hundreds of feet high that never touches land; a secret underground base in China; an image from space may have revealed the location of the Garden of Eden.

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2. Lost City of Gold

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Weird barren rings in the Namib Desert, an island the size of Manhattan that vanishes without trace and a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. What on Earth? Investigates six more mysteries captured from space.

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3. Secrets of the Sahara

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First seen from space in 1965, the Eye of the Sahara is a beautiful 25 mile structure, but how it formed remains a mystery. And are extraordinary clouds emanating from an island in the Indian Ocean evidence of a terrifying new weather weapon?

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4. Finding Sodom

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NASA astronaut Mike Barratt, describes photographing a strange ring in the ice on the world's oldest and most mysterious lake from the International Space Station. More rings on Lake Baikal have been seen since, they baffle scientists.

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5. North Korea is Burning

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A possible smoke screen over North Korea worries military analysts while an amateur archaeologist makes an extraordinary discovery with the help of a satellite image; has this image revealed not one but two forgotten pyramids in Egypt?

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6. Nazi Ice Fortress

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Images of earth from space reveal an intimate portrait of human activity. Cities glow bright while the wilderness remains dark. Why then is the Australian outback, lit up like a series of vast cities?

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