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Wonders of the Solar System
The first episode illustrates how the formation and behaviour of the Sun affects each planet in the Solar System . During this episode , Cox visits India to view and explain the workings of a total solar eclipse and the partial eclipses that occur on other planets . He travels to the Iguazu Falls to relate the causality between river levels , and sunspot fluctuations . An explanation of the Earth 's exposure to the power of the Sun occurs in Death Valley , California , USA , with an experiment inspired by John Herschel 's actinometer . He also travels to Norway to observe and explain the defensive role of the Earth 's magnetosphere against the sun 's solar wind and its role in forming the Aurora Borealis . He also relates the Voyager missions and their continuing exploration of the massive reach of the sun 's gravitational forces on objects in the farthest regions of the solar system . Finally , in the clear skies of the Atacama Desert , at the Paranal Observatory he is able to observe , with the naked eye , the myriad of stars on the Milky Way and relates the meaning of their diverse colours as mapped on the Hertzsprung -- Russell diagram .
The first episode illustrates how the formation and behaviour of the Sun affects each planet in the Solar System . During this episode , Cox visits India to view and explain the workings of a total solar eclipse and the partial eclipses that occur on other planets . He travels to the Iguazu Falls to relate the causality between river levels , and sunspot fluctuations . An explanation of the Earth 's exposure to the power of the Sun occurs in Death Valley , California , USA , with an experiment inspired by John Herschel 's actinometer . He also travels to Norway to observe and explain the defensive role of the Earth 's magnetosphere against the sun 's solar wind and its role in forming the Aurora Borealis . He also relates the Voyager missions and their continuing exploration of the massive reach of the sun 's gravitational forces on objects in the farthest regions of the solar system . Finally , in the clear skies of the Atacama Desert , at the Paranal Observatory he is able to observe , with the naked eye , the myriad of stars on the Milky Way and relates the meaning of their diverse colours as mapped on the Hertzsprung -- Russell diagram .