Earth from Space: Colourful Planet (2019)

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’ve never seen it before.

Narrator: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Producer: Justin Anderson

Duration: 58 minutes

Suggested credit: Earth from Space: Colourful Planet (2019) © BBC Archive

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